Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 B.C.: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198152469

ISBN13:9780198152460

Release Date:July 1999

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:2.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 8.1" x 11.4"

Related Subjects

History Math Mathematics Science & Math Social Science Social Sciences

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