The ritual origin of geometry

DOI10.1007/BF00327767zbMath0109.00201MaRDI QIDQ1130775

A. Seidenberg

Publication date: 1962

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

history

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) General histories, source books (01A05) History of geometry (51-03) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

Related Items (8)

The ritual origin of counting ⋮ The mathematics in the structures of Stonehenge ⋮ The ritual origin of the circle and square ⋮ Mathematical notions in preliterate societies ⋮ Baudhāyana's rule for the quadrature of the circle ⋮ Did Euclid's elements, Book I, develop geometry axiomatically? ⋮ On the area of a semi-circle ⋮ A Neolithic oral tradition for the van der Waerden/Seidenberg origin of mathematics

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