The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
By: Violet Moller
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledg…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The history of ideas is not constrained by boundaries of culture, religion or politics and, in order to fully appreciate it, a more far-reaching approach is needed."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
"The history of ideas is not constrained by boundaries of culture, religion or politics and, in order to fully appreciate it, a more far-reaching approach is needed."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
"In 771, a traveller arrived in the city [Baghdad] with a copy of a work of Hindu astronomy called the Siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668). Unlike Euclid, Brahmagupta did not set out his mathematical propositions clearly with proofs, but obscured them (as was traditional in Indian mathematics) under a veil of poetry -- beautiful, but extremely difficult to unravel. Al-Mansur gave his court astrologer, al-Fazari, the Herculean task of translating the Siddhanta, which introduced Baghdad to the concept of 'positional notation' -- the way we write numbers to this day, using the digits 1 to 9, in columns of units, tens, hundreds and so on. The possibilities that this system opened up were limitless; when it was eventually adopted, it transformed the entire discipline of mathematics by allowing calculations that would have been impossible with the old Roman-numeral system. Positional notation was already known in Syria and had been admired by Severus Sebokht, who wrote about the 'nine sings' of Indian mathematicians in 662."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
"In 771, a traveller arrived in the city [Baghdad] with a copy of a work of Hindu astronomy called the Siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668). Unlike Euclid, Brahmagupta did not set out his mathematical propositions clearly with proofs, but obscured them (as was traditional in Indian mathematics) under a veil of poetry -- beautiful, but extremely difficult to unravel. Al-Mansur gave his court astrologer, al-Fazari, the Herculean task of translating the Siddhanta, which introduced Baghdad to the concept of 'positional notation' -- the way we write numbers to this day, using the digits 1 to 9, in columns of units, tens, hundreds and so on. The possibilities that this system opened up were limitless; when it was eventually adopted, it transformed the entire discipline of mathematics by allowing calculations that would have been impossible with the old Roman-numeral system. Positional notation was already known in Syria and had been admired by Severus Sebokht, who wrote about the 'nine sings' of Indian mathematicians in 662."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
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