Stephen Chrisomalis

Numerical Notation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems, encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780521878180
• ISBN-10: 0521878187
• Artikelnr.: 26432404

Autorenporträt

Stephen Chrisomalis is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he studied under the late Bruce Trigger. His doctoral dissertation (on which this book is founded) was awarded the Prix de l'ADESAQ for the top 2003 dissertation in any arts, social sciences, or fine arts discipline in the province of Quebec. His work has appeared in journals including Antiquity, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and Cross-Cultural Research. He is the editor of the Stop: Toutes Directions project and the author of the academic weblog Glossographia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Hieroglyphic systems
3. Levantine systems
4. Italic systems
5. Alphabetic systems
6. South Asian systems
7. Mesopotamian systems
8. East Asian systems
9. Mesoamerican systems
10. Miscellaneous systems
11. Cognitive and structural analysis
12. Social and historical analysis
13. Conclusion.