/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4380199]

sci, is there a mathematics history book that tells you how those ancient civilizations created math? sorry for not being able to explain better, english is not my birth language.

after i finished reading Lockhart's Lament and it is so true about it, in every math class i've been it's always that '' memorize this, memorize that'' and i always wanted to know the history behind mathematics.

I would like you to suggest me a book that besides telling you the history of mathematics, how they created it, how they deducted that, and how it is used in the modern world.

all coming from a highschool drop-out trying to start from the beginning.

i'd appreciate your contribution.

[Anonymous No.4380204]

Find a pile of rocks and some soft dirt that you can carve into with a stick.

[Anonymous No.4380205]

> wanted to know the history behind
> know the history
> history

Yeah, just study history.

[Anonymous No.4380207]

can you use torrents?

[Anonymous No.4380211]

>>4380204
Has got it right.

Discover it yourself.

Draw a circle, measure its radius and circumference. Do this multiple times. Graph the data of the circumference vs the radius, and find the slope of the line of best fit.

[Anonymous No.4380213]

>>4380207
of course i can, i was just asking for some suggestion

[Anonymous No.4380214]

>>4380211
Had a brain-fart moment.

You could also use diameter.

[Anonymous No.4380219]

>>4380213
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6790380/The_History_of_Mathematics_An_Introduction_7th_Edition_BBS_

there's also this series of lectures that is quite good
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4402612/TTC_Video_-_Queen_of_the_Sciences

in audio only format on demonoid
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2079693/14952432/

[Anonymous No.4380229]

>>4380219

thank you very much, any other suggestion?