Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts): XIV - Brossura

Robson, Eleanor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198152469 ISBN 13: 9780198152460

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1999

Riassunto

Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the end of the fourth millennium B.C. for the express purpose of recording numericalatical information. The main body of this book is a mathematical and philological discussion of the two hundred technical constants, or "coefficients", found in early second millennium mathematics. Their names and mathematical functions are established, leading to improved interpretations of several large mathematical topics. The origins of many coefficients-and much of the more practical mathematics-are traced to late third millennium accounting and quantity surveying practices. Finally, the coefficients are used to examine some aspects of mathematics education in early Mesopotamia.

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Recensione

The book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Old Babylonian mathematics and its role in real life. (K.B.Gundlach, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2001)

L'autore

Eleanor Robson is at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198152469
• ISBN 13: 9780198152460
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 350
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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