Sherlock holmes in babylon and other tales of mathematical history spectrum anderson marlow katz victor wilson robin isbn 9780883855461 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. But i also want to explore the ways in which studying ancient mathematics is or should be different from researching modern mathematics one of the most cited analyses of plimpton 322 published some twenty years ago was called sherlock holmes in babylon 4 this enticing title gave out the message that deciphering historical documents was rather like solving a fictional murder mystery the amateur detective historian need only pit his razor sharp intellect against the clues . Sherlock holmes in babylon and other tales of mathematical history marlow anderson victor katz robin wilson no preview available 2004 common terms and phrases algebraic analysis analytic ancient angle approximation archimedes arithmetic bernoulli binomial brook taylor calculus cambridge cardan century chinese chinese mathematics circle commentary computation concept conic construction . Sherlock holmes in babylon and other tales of mathematical history spectrum marlow anderson victor katz robin wilson covering a span of almost 4000 years from the ancient babylonians to the eighteenth century this collection chronicles the enormous changes in mathematical thinking over this time as viewed by distinguished historians of mathematics from the past and the present. Sherlock holmes in babylon and other tales of mathematical history spectrum by marlow anderson 2004 01 02 marlow andersonvictor katzrobin wilson isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon