Jens Høyrup (*1943): educated as a physicist at Copenhagen University. From 1973 he taught first in the domain of social, then human sciences, at Roskilde University, Denmark, until he retired in 2005. Much of his research has dealt with the conceptual, cultural and social history of pre-Modern mathematics.
7 Ebooks by Jens Høyrup
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, mostly focusing on particular aspects of mathem …
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€64.19
Jens Høyrup: Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture
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€96.29
Jens Høyrup: The World of the Abbaco
The abbacus was a thorough and complete system of arithmetical calculations, which saw its dawn in the Indian and Arabic tradition of the Middle Ages, but which was developed in its fully fledged asp …
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€58.84
Jens Høyrup: From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume II
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 Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, and the 17th …
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€128.39
Jens Høyrup: From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I
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 this volume is ancient Mesopotamia, classical Anti …
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Inggeris
€128.39
Jens Høyrup: From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III
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 this volume is Western Europe during the 18th and …
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Inggeris
€117.69
Jens Høyrup: Explorations and False Trails
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 history is written on the basis of a narrow and mislea …
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Inggeris
€48.14
