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

All humans use math, but Americans are often taught that math is ahistorical--that how math is taught and used is not influenced by human foibles and desires. The history of math is so much more than the Pythagorean Theorem--it is the history of humanity itself. Read this book to understand that the math we use everyday comes from cultures that we rarely study in American schools. More importantly, read this book to understand that Mathematics as a field is truly cross-cultural and rooted in history; it is a field that unites all human beings.

If you like math, get this book! The author includes historic math problems and solutions from a bunch of places, showing how similar problems have been approached from different vantage points. It's pretty cool. If history class had included real world discussions like this, I wouldn't have slept through it.

An erudite compilation of Eastern Mathematics that preceded much Western mathematics. Many mathematical discoveries attributed to the West were found to have existed, some time centuries earlier, in Eastern mathematical though and writings.

I had to read selections from this book for a class. I found it so helpful I bought the book. This is a wonderful introduction to the development of modern math and a good guide to where it developed.

One of the BEST unbiased study of roots of Mathematics. Very well written and understandable even by a non-mathematical person. The author has really taken the trouble. Worth reading and analysingThe colonial rationale to denigrate "Natives" no longer stands so the truth must be told. This is but the tip of an iceberg.

Needed it for school, great read.

very interesting for the project I am working on

was required for an Evolution of Mathematics class but turned out to be an interesting read!

Mi valoración es máxima porque es una nueva impresión que no es una simple reimpresión (la primera edición del año 1991 era ya un libro exelente), se trata de una total puesta al día con los últimos descubrimientos y estudios sobre las raices no europeas de las matemáticas.No obstante, quiero hacer constar que devolví el primer ejemplar que recibí porque tenia las tapas manchadas. El proceso de devolución funcionó perfectamente y a los pocos días recibí un segundo ejemplar que, sorpresa, también tenía las tapas manchadas. He desistido de hacer otra devolución porque supongo que todos los ejemplares que tiene Amazon disponibles tienen este defecto. Si en realidad es así, creo que deberían hacerme algun descuento.