The ritual origin of geometry
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Publication:1130775
DOI10.1007/BF00327767zbMath0109.00201MaRDI QIDQ1130775
Publication date: 1962
Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
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)
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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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