Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts : A Codex from Late Antique Business Education (P. Math. ) / edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Alexander Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bagnall, Roger S., editor.

Jones, Alexander, editor.

Series:

ISAW monographs ; Volume 9.

ISAW Monographs ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri).

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Paleography, Greek.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and New York University Press, [2019]

Summary:

A comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration. The book will be of interest to papyrologists and scholars who are interested in the history and culture of late antiquity, the history of education, literacy, the ancient economy, and the history of science and mathematics.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

I. Introduction

1: The Manuscript

2: The Leaves and Their Sequence

3: Dating

4: Paleography

5: Language

6: Model Documents

7: The Metrological Texts

8: Relations in the Metrological Texts

9: The Mathematical Problems

10: Algorithms Used in the Problems

11: Partitions into Unit-Fractions

12: Metrological Relations and Coefficients in the Mathematical Problems

13: The Nature of the Codex

14. Index of Texts

15. Index of Texts by Type

16. Note on Editorial Procedure

II. Text and Translation

III. Commentary

Appendix A. Synopsis of Mathematical Papyri

Appendix B. Concordance of Mathematical Papyri

References

Index

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ISBN:

1-4798-0178-X

OCLC:

1456759701