Jens Høyrup

Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice

This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics...

Lengths, Widths, Surfaces

A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of t...

In Measure, Number, and Weight

Studies in Mathematics and Culture

Jens Hoyrup, recognized as the leading authority in social studies of pre-modern mathematics, here provides a social study of the changing mode of mat...

Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture

This book deals with one of the earliest surviving "abbacus" treatises, one that is by far more orderly than any of the extant predecessors and is als...

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons

Science Goes Vernacular

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in t...

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons

When Science Spoke Latin

This book is the second of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science) and covers the Latin ...

The World of the Abbaco

Abbacus Mathematics Analyzed and Situated Historically Between Fibonacci and Stifel

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Explorations and False Trails

The Innovative Techniques That Brought about Modern Algebra

This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this hist...

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons

Behind Western Europe

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in t...

The Art of Knowing

An Essay on Epistemology in Practice ; Lecture Notes

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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I

Behind Western Europe

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in t...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons

Volume I introduces the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is ancient Mesopotamia, cl...

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons

An Introduction to the History of Scientific Thought

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