Jens Hoyrup
Biographic Data
| ID | 416612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens Hoyrup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoyrup |
| SIGNATURE | HOYRUP J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8307-718X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Where and how did Archimedes get in? Oblique and labyrinthine reflections
This answer to Reviel Netz’s article at first questions his optimism concerning our technological future. After that, it suggests a different role for Archimedes and the other prominent Greek mathematicians than the one claimed by Netz: as providers not of answers but of problems which called for the transformation of the abbacus and cossist algebra tradition, thereby allowing first Viète and then Descartes to create the first level of the new an…
Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice
(Article I.6.) Geometrical Patterns in the Pre-Classical Greek Area: Prospecting the Borderland between Decoration, Art, and Structural Inquiry
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it
Mathematics Education in the European Middle Ages
Geometry, Mesopotamian
By late pre‐literate times the ground plans of high‐prestige buildings were laid out with string.
Mathematics, Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian mathematics and writing coevolved as book‐keeping tools in protoliterate Uruk (ca. 3300 BCE ), apparently as key constituents in the legitimization of the transformation of a redistributive into a statal social system. At least until 2000 BCE , accounting and mathematically determined allocation of rations and land seem to have carried connotations of social justice. In the second and first millennia, mathematics still served account…
Mathematics and War
Generosity: No Doubt, but at Times Excessive and Delusive
Artificial Language in Ancient Mesopotamia – A Dubious and a Less Dubious Case
On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six “Algebras”
For more than a century, there has been some discussion about whether medieval Arabic al-jabr (and hence also later European algebra) has its roots in Indian or Greek mathematics. Since the 1930s, the possibility of Babylonian ultimate roots has entered the debate. This article presents a new approach to the problem, pointing to a set of quasi-algebraic riddles that appear to have circulated among Near Eastern practical geometers since c. 2000 BC…
Changing Trends in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics: An Insider's View
L'A. decrit les tendances qui ont caracterise depuis 1930 le developpement de l'historiographie des mathematiques de l'epoque babylonienne
Prehistoire de la geometrie: Premiers elements d'enquete, premieres conclusions. Olivier Keller
The Mystery of Numbers. Annemarie Schimmel
"Remarkable Numbers" in Old Babylonian Mathematical Texts: A Note on the Psychology of Numbers
Anfänge von Wissenschaft im Kontext der frühmesopotamischen ‘städtischen Revolution’
A theme like “town and science” invites to comparative analysis, and suggests questions like these: Is the urban context a particularly fertile soil for the development of scientific thinking? Or rather the contrary? Is it fertile or barren under specific circumstances? Or does it favour a particular kind of scientific activity? General answers to such questions can hardly be found; still, they may provide case studies with a guiding perspective.…
Sub-Scientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon
The Formation of “Islamic Mathematics” Sources and Conditions
The Argument The development of autonomous theoretical science is often considered a “Greek miracle.” It is argued in the present paper that another “miracle,” necessary for the creation of modern science, took place for the first time in the Islamic Middle Ages, viz. the integration of (still autonomous) theory and (equally autonomous) practice. The discussion focuses on the mathematical disciplines. It starts by investigating the plurality of t…
Varieties of Mathematical Discourse in Pre-Modern Socio-Cultural Contexts: Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Latin Middle Ages
Peace Appeal
Sub-Scientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it
Changing Trends in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics: An Insider's View
L'A. decrit les tendances qui ont caracterise depuis 1930 le developpement de l'historiographie des mathematiques de l'epoque babylonienne
Peace Appeal
Varieties of Mathematical Discourse in Pre-Modern Socio-Cultural Contexts: Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Latin Middle Ages
The Formation of “Islamic Mathematics” Sources and Conditions
The Argument The development of autonomous theoretical science is often considered a “Greek miracle.” It is argued in the present paper that another “miracle,” necessary for the creation of modern science, took place for the first time in the Islamic Middle Ages, viz. the integration of (still autonomous) theory and (equally autonomous) practice. The discussion focuses on the mathematical disciplines. It starts by investigating the plurality of t…
Sub-Scientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon
Anfänge von Wissenschaft im Kontext der frühmesopotamischen ‘städtischen Revolution’
A theme like “town and science” invites to comparative analysis, and suggests questions like these: Is the urban context a particularly fertile soil for the development of scientific thinking? Or rather the contrary? Is it fertile or barren under specific circumstances? Or does it favour a particular kind of scientific activity? General answers to such questions can hardly be found; still, they may provide case studies with a guiding perspective.…
"Remarkable Numbers" in Old Babylonian Mathematical Texts: A Note on the Psychology of Numbers
The Mystery of Numbers. Annemarie Schimmel
Changing Trends in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics: An Insider's View
L'A. decrit les tendances qui ont caracterise depuis 1930 le developpement de l'historiographie des mathematiques de l'epoque babylonienne
Prehistoire de la geometrie: Premiers elements d'enquete, premieres conclusions. Olivier Keller
On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six “Algebras”
For more than a century, there has been some discussion about whether medieval Arabic al-jabr (and hence also later European algebra) has its roots in Indian or Greek mathematics. Since the 1930s, the possibility of Babylonian ultimate roots has entered the debate. This article presents a new approach to the problem, pointing to a set of quasi-algebraic riddles that appear to have circulated among Near Eastern practical geometers since c. 2000 BC…
Artificial Language in Ancient Mesopotamia – A Dubious and a Less Dubious Case
Generosity: No Doubt, but at Times Excessive and Delusive
Geometry, Mesopotamian
By late pre‐literate times the ground plans of high‐prestige buildings were laid out with string.
Mathematics, Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian mathematics and writing coevolved as book‐keeping tools in protoliterate Uruk (ca. 3300 BCE ), apparently as key constituents in the legitimization of the transformation of a redistributive into a statal social system. At least until 2000 BCE , accounting and mathematically determined allocation of rations and land seem to have carried connotations of social justice. In the second and first millennia, mathematics still served account…
Mathematics and War
Mathematics Education in the European Middle Ages
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it
Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice
(Article I.6.) Geometrical Patterns in the Pre-Classical Greek Area: Prospecting the Borderland between Decoration, Art, and Structural Inquiry
Where and how did Archimedes get in? Oblique and labyrinthine reflections
This answer to Reviel Netz’s article at first questions his optimism concerning our technological future. After that, it suggests a different role for Archimedes and the other prominent Greek mathematicians than the one claimed by Netz: as providers not of answers but of problems which called for the transformation of the abbacus and cossist algebra tradition, thereby allowing first Viète and then Descartes to create the first level of the new an…
History (11 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (11 works) · Mathematics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (8 works) · Classics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Ancient Near East History (5 works)