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1.
Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery
Contributors:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press 2009
Subjects:
Pythagoras--Manuscripts--Fiction
Women Mathematicians--United States--Fiction
Historians--England--Oxford--Fiction
Mathematics, Ancient--Greece--Fiction
Secret Societies--Fiction
Fiction
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...andBibliographical Sources Main source on Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: The Pythagorean...University Press, 1962. Charles H. Kahn, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History...Puzzle: Y. I. Perelman, Fun with Math and Physics. Moscow: Mir Publishers...
2.
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History
Contributors:
Publisher:
Hackett 2001
Subjects:
Pythagoras And Pythagorean School
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...older traditionsand more successful in avoiding glaring anachronism than the usualauthors of pseudo-Pythagorica.32 Adv. math. VII.94–108. Burkert previously (1972: 54–6) argued in de­tail for the dependence of this text on...
3.
Exemplary Practices for Secondary Math Teachers
Contributors:
Publisher:
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 2007
Subjects:
Effective Teaching
Mathematics--Study And Teaching (Secondary)
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...Press.Posamentier, A. S. (2003). Math wonders to inspire teachers and students...Jaye, D. (2006). What successful math teachers do, 6–12. ThousandOaks...River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall.Pythagoras Theorem. (n.d.). Retrieved August...
4.
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are like Gossip
Contributors:
Publisher:
Basic Books 2000
Subjects:
Mathematical Ability
Mathematics--Philosophy
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...shape to study, the geometrician thendiscovers general facts that apply to all instances of the shape. For exam­ple, Pythagoras's theorem says that for any right triangle, the square ofthe hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other...
5.
Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century, Including the Full Text of the Treviso Arithmetic of 1478, Translated by David Eugene Smith
Contributors:
Publisher:
Open Court Publishing 1987
Subjects:
Mathematics--History
Arithmetic--History
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...N. The History of Mathematics in Europe.London: Oxford University Press, 1925.Swetz, F., andKao, T. I. Was Pythagoras Chinese?University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania StateUniversity Press, 1977.Symonds, John Addington. Renaissance in...
6.
The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math
Contributors:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press 2009
Subjects:
Mathematicians--Correspondence
Strogatz, Steven H. (Steven Henry)--Correspondence
Joffray, Don, 1929---Correspondence
Chaotic Behavior in Systems
Calculus
Differential Equations
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...laws of theuniverse could be expressed in mathematics, and more spe­cifically, in terms of small whole numbers. Pythagoras him­self had made the discovery that musical harmony wasbased on numbers: when he plucked two lyre strings, bothstrung...
7.
Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences
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Publisher:
Stanford University Press 2010
Subjects:
Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938
Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938--Influence
Science--Philosophy
History--Philosophy
Phenomenology
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...studyingmathematics was an absolute precondition for joining the administrativeelite of a wise republic. Call Pythagoras and Plato math-obsessed freaks:Even so, no other civilization left traces of freaks like those who were alsocultural icons...
8.
Cicero on Divination: De Divinatione, Book 1
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2006
Subjects:
Divination--Early Works to 1800
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. de Divinatione
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...divine, universal mind', cf. Tusc. 5. 38: 'the humansoul is taken from the divine mind'. Sext. Emp. Math. 9. 127:'Pythagoras and Empedocles … declare … there is one spirit whichpervades, like a soul, the whole universe...
9.
Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1995
Subjects:
Rome--Religion
Arnobius, of Sicca
Persecution--History--Early Church, CA. 30-600
Christianity and Other Religions--Roman
Neoplatonism
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...addresses the followers of Mercury, Plato, and Pythagoras and theiresoteric rituals enabling them to return...Porphyry, Abst. 2. 34. 1;Firmicus Maternus, Math. 7. 1. 1: Pythagoras etiam et noster Porphyrius religioso putantanimum...
10.
The Ascent of Science
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1998
Subjects:
Science--History
Science--Philosophy
Thought And Thinking--History
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...curriculum at Juilliard. Music, math,and nature mingled--this is pure Pythagoras. It was largely through...textthat the message of Pythagoras was preserved for some 500...and Queen Elizabeth I.Pythagoras CorrectedTo be proved wrong...
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