Book contents
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Editions
- Contributors
- Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects
- Part I Methodological Issues and Goals
- Part II Philosophy and Religion
- Part III Art and Literature
- Part IV Mathematics and Life Sciences
- 10 Divisions, Big and Small: Comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui
- 11 Abstraction as a Value in the Historiography of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and China: A Historical Approach to Comparative History of Mathematics
- 12 Recipes for Love in the Ancient World
- Part V Agriculture, Planning and Institutions
- Afterword
- Index
- References
11 - Abstraction as a Value in the Historiography of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and China: A Historical Approach to Comparative History of Mathematics
from Part IV - Mathematics and Life Sciences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2017
Book contents
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Editions
- Contributors
- Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects
- Part I Methodological Issues and Goals
- Part II Philosophy and Religion
- Part III Art and Literature
- Part IV Mathematics and Life Sciences
- 10 Divisions, Big and Small: Comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui
- 11 Abstraction as a Value in the Historiography of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and China: A Historical Approach to Comparative History of Mathematics
- 12 Recipes for Love in the Ancient World
- Part V Agriculture, Planning and Institutions
- Afterword
- Index
- References
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