Capitalism and Arithmetic
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Book Overview
In Mr. Swetz's learned and engrossing commentary on the text, you can find facts that will impress your boss and amaze your friends, such as the mathematical origins of the words 'counter, ' 'banks, ' and 'digits.' The rich historical details support a compelling account of how mercantile capitalism in the Venetian republic of the early Renaissance crucially influenced the evolution of mathematics and how mathematics helped the rise of capitalism.
--Wall Street Journal
--Wall Street Journal
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812690141
ISBN13:9780812690149
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Open Court
Length:358 Pages
Weight:1.17 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
The importance of having the number "zero. "
Published by Yasha , 5 months ago
A great discourse on why society could not progress until the number "zero" was used as a place-holder.
Early history of business and computational science
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The advent of Hindu/Arabic numbers in Europe made possible "algorithmic" calculation. Math schools were established where parents sent their sons to prepare for jobs with merchants, where ability to calculate was a requirement. Curiously, there were many different ways of setting up problems for solution with pencil and paper, and only later on did we agree on the standard "algorithms" for addition, subtraction, etc. that are now taught to children. The ability to compute proportionality, the basis of the money changer's art, was regarded as amazing.
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