Unexpected links between Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics / Joran Friberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friberg, Jöran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics, Ancient.

Mathematics, Babylonian.

Mathematics, Egyptian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades. In contrast to this Egyptian mathematics is known from only a small number of papyrus texts, and the few books and papers that have been written about Egyptian mathematical papyri have mostly reiterated the same old presentations and interpretations of the texts. In this book, it is shown that the methods developed by the author for the close study of mathematical cuneiform texts ca

Contents:

Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Two Curious Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from Old Babylonian Mari; Chapter 2 Hieratic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 3 Demotic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 4 Greek-Egyptian Mathematical Documents and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; New Thoughts About the History of Ancient Mathematics; Index of Texts; Index of Subjects; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611881283

9781281881281

1281881287

9789812701121

9812701125

OCLC:

476064719

Publisher Number:

9789812563286