Oriental and old American geometry

Christoph J. Scriba and Peter Schreiber
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Christoph J. Scriba: University Hamburg
Peter Schreiber: University Greifswald

Chapter 3 in 5000 Years of Geometry, 2015, pp 117-218 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Before we deal with the European Middle Ages in the following chapter, we will present an overview in this chapter of the development of geometry in the oriental countries up to the 15th century, in Japan until the end of its seclusion in 1868, and in the old American cultures.

Keywords: Regular Polygon; Spherical Triangle; Islamic Country; Conic Frustum; Circle Segment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0898-9_3

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