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The Area and the Side I Added: Some old Babylonian Geometry

Duncan J. Melville (2005)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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There was a standard procedure in Mesopotamia for solving quadratic problems involving lengths and areas of squares. In this paper, we show, by means of an example from Susa, how area constants were used to reduce problems involving other geometrical figures to the standard form.

The sublexical structure of a sign language

Lucinda Ferreira Brito, Rémi Langevin (1994)

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines

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Analyzing and transcribing a sign language is a difficult task since the mode of expression - hand movements in a space located close to the body, complemented by attitudes and facial expressions - is a priori less sequential than speech. Our work aims to complete numerous previous attempts and uses in particular Stokoe’s system. Analysing the movement of a frame attached to the hand as the movement of a point in R 3 × S O ( 3 ) we manage to discretize in a natural way the most frequent gestures of...

Geometrical Patterns in the Pre-classical Greek Area. Prospecting the Borderland between Decoration, Art, and Structural Inquiry

Jens Høyrup (2000)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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Many general histories of mathematics mention prehistoric “geometric” decorations along with counting and tally-sticks as the earliest beginnings of mathematics, insinuating thus (without making it too explicit) that a direct line of development links such decorations to mathematical geometry. The article confronts this persuasion with a particular historical case: the changing character of geometrical decorations in the later Greek area from the Middle Neolithic through the first millennium...