The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics (Third Edition)

by George Gheverghese Joseph (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $37.06

  Ranging from the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, this book points out that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. It shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks.