Multicultural Mathematics

by George Gheverghese Joseph, Julian Williams, David Nelson, et al.

Book Overview

The history of mathematics is one of creation and discovery in many parts of the world, and yet few people realize that Pythagoras' Theorem was known to the Babylonians a thousand years before the Greeks. Similarly, Pascal's Triangle of 1645 was actually used in practical ways much earlier in China. Indeed, there is a rich field of African, Middle Eastern, and Asian mathematics that is often ignored in the teaching of the subject. Mathematics, then,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192822411
• ISBN13: 9780192822413
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"