{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-mathematics-9781350062948","title":"A Cultural History of Mathematics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClemency Montelle \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.  She has research interests in the mathematical history of several early cultures of inquiry including Mesopotamia, Greece, India, and the Islamic near east.  She is the co-author of several books on early mathematical astronomy, including \u003ci\u003eEditing and Analysing Numerical Tables Towards a Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences \u003c\/i\u003e(Brepols, 2021) along with editors Benno van Dalen and Matthieu Husson,\u003ci\u003e The Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasara?i Numerical Tables in Textual Scholarship \u003c\/i\u003e(Brill, 2021) with Anuj Misra and Kim Plofker,\u003ci\u003e Sanskrit Astronomical Tables \u003c\/i\u003e(Springer, 2019) with Kim Plofker, and\u003ci\u003e Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning \u003c\/i\u003e(2011)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph W. Dauben\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of History and History of Science at the City University of New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGeorg Cantor, His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D. '72), he has been editor of \u003ci\u003eHistoria Mathematica\u003c\/i\u003e and a former chairman of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. Professor Dauben has been a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), is a Life Member of Clare Hall (Cambridge), an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize for History of Mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Plofker \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her doctorate from the Department of the History of Mathematics at Brown University in 1995. Her research focuses on the history of mathematics and astronomy in India and its connections with Islamic and early modern European science. Professor Plofker's books include \u003ci\u003eMathematics in India\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton, 2009) and (with Anuj Misra and Clemency Montelle) \u003ci\u003eThe Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasarin\u003c\/i\u003ei (Brill, 2021). She delivered a Plenary Lecture at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India, and was awarded the Brouwer Medal of the Royal Mathematical Society of the Netherlands in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187285188951,"sku":"9781350062948","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-mathematics-9781350062948","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}