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A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity

Tom Archibald David E. Rowe

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English
Bloomsbury Academic
02 April 2026
A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 500 CE, exploring the great richness and diversity of mathematical thought and activity across the ancient world. Our modern notion of mathematics – and the word itself – was established by Greco-Roman culture. However, sophisticated forms of what we should call mathematics – number systems, ways of measurement, notation, and formulae – were developed millennia earlier by scribes in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Iraq. Mathematics proved just as invaluable in trade, taxation, astronomy, engineering, war, and agriculture in antiquity as it does now.

The six volume set of the Cultural History of Mathematics explores the value and impact of mathematics in human culture from antiquity to the present. The themes covered in each volume are everyday numeracy; practice and profession; inventing mathematics; mathematics and worldviews; describing and understanding the world; mathematics and technological change; representing mathematics.

Michael N. Fried is Associate Professor and Chair of the Program for Science and Technology Education in the School of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Mathematics set. General Editors: David E. Rowe, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, and Joseph W. Dauben, City University of New York, USA.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 248mm,  Width: 172mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   691g
ISBN:   9781350062931
ISBN 10:   1350062936
Series:   The Cultural Histories Series
Pages:   280
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Michael N. Fried is chair of the Program for Science and Technology Education in the School of Education at Ben Gurion University. He is the author of Apollonius of Perga’s Conica: Text, Context, and Subtext with Sabetai Unguru (Brill 2001), Apollonius of Perga’s Conics, Book IV: Translation, Introduction, and Diagrams (Green Lion Press 2002), and Edmund Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius' Conics: Translation from Latin, Introduction and Commentary (Springer 2011).

Reviews for A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity

“World-class scholars contextualize mathematical theories and practices within the lived reality of the global ancient world. A path-breaking volume, teeming with important original insights and casting a new light on the history of mathematics.” -- Glenn W. Most, University of Chicago, USA


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