Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC : technical constants in bureaucracy and education

by Eleanor Robson

Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the end of the fourth millennium BC for the express purpose of recording numerical information. By the beginning of the second millennium the earliest known body of 'pure' mathematics was one of the key elements of scribal training, and is thus pivotal to our understanding of the educational practices and intellectual history of ancient Mesopotamia. 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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書名 Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC : technical constants in bureaucracy and education
著作者等 Robson Eleanor
シリーズ名 Oxford editions of cuneiform texts
出版元 Clarendon Press
刊行年月 c1999
ページ数 xvi, 334 p.
大きさ 31 cm
ISBN 0198152469
NCID BA41547613
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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