Mathematics and Technology Before the Modern Era

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-93779-3_2zbMath1429.01004OpenAlexW2898198749MaRDI QIDQ4972855

Sven Ove Hansson

Publication date: 27 November 2019

Published in: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93779-3_2

zbMATH Keywords

countingEuclidean geometryapplied mathematicspractical mathematicsmasonryweavingGothic cathedralsruler and compassbuilding constructionIslamic geometric patternstechnology and mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) General histories, source books (01A05) Mathematics and visual arts (00A66) Mathematics and architecture (00A67) Ethnomathematics (general) (01A07)

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