Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

A study of the technical constants found in Old Babylonian mathematics 4000 years ago. Their origins are traced to earlier accounting and administrative practices and are used to examine aspects of mathematics education in early Mesopotamia. The text is volume 24 of the OXFORD EDITIONS OF CUNEIFORM TEXTS.Read More

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    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.

  • 0198152469
  • 9780198152460
  • Eleanor Robson
  • 20 May 1999
  • Clarendon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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