New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
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New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
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Author : Jöran Friberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-13
New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts written by Jöran Friberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-13 with Mathematics categories.
This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script. It is a continuation of the work A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts (Springer 2007) written by Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics. Focussing on the big picture, Friberg explores in this book several Late Babylonian arithmetical and metro-mathematical table texts from the sites of Babylon, Uruk and Sippar, collections of mathematical exercises from four Old Babylonian sites, as well as a new text from Early Dynastic/Early Sargonic Umma, which is the oldest known collection of mathematical exercises. A table of reciprocals from the end of the third millennium BC, differing radically from well-documented but younger tables of reciprocals from the Neo-Sumerian and Old-Babylonian periods, as well as a fragment of a Neo-Sumerian clay tablet showing a new type of a labyrinth are also discussed. The material is presented in the form of photos, hand copies, transliterations and translations, accompanied by exhaustive explanations. The previously unpublished mathematical cuneiform texts presented in this book were discovered by Farouk Al-Rawi, who also made numerous beautiful hand copies of most of the clay tablets. Historians of mathematics and the Mesopotamian civilization, linguists and those interested in ancient labyrinths will find New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts particularly valuable. The book contains many texts of previously unknown types and material that is not available elsewhere.
A Remarkable Collection Of Babylonian Mathematical Texts
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Author : Jöran Friberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-07-31
A Remarkable Collection Of Babylonian Mathematical Texts written by Jöran Friberg and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-31 with Mathematics categories.
The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the private collection of Martin Schoyen. It includes analyses of tablets which have never been studied before. This provides new insight into Babylonian understanding of sophisticated mathematical objects. The book is carefully written and organized. The tablets are classified according to mathematical content and purpose, while drawings and pictures are provided for the most interesting tablets.
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
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Author : Otto Neugebauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts written by Otto Neugebauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Mathematics categories.
A Mathematician S Journeys
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Author : Alexander Jones
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-03
A Mathematician S Journeys written by Alexander Jones and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-03 with History categories.
This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of science will head in the twenty-first century. Neugebauer, more than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive premodern science. Through his scholarship and influence on students and collaborators, he inculcated both an approach to historical research on ancient and medieval mathematics and astronomy through precise mathematical and philological study of texts, and a vision of these sciences as systems of knowledge and method that spread outward from the ancient Near Eastern civilizations, crossing cultural boundaries and circulating over a tremendous geographical expanse of the Old World from the Atlantic to India.
Interfaces Between Mathematical Practices And Mathematical Education
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Author : Gert Schubring
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-16
Interfaces Between Mathematical Practices And Mathematical Education written by Gert Schubring and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-16 with Education categories.
This contributed volume investigates the active role of the different contexts of mathematics teaching on the evolution of the practices of mathematical concepts, with particular focus on their foundations. The book aims to deconstruct the strong and generally wide-held conviction that research in mathematics constitutes the only driving force for any progress in the development of mathematics as a field. In compelling and convincing contrast, these chapters aim to show the productive function of teaching, showcasing investigations from countries and regions throughout various eras, from Old Babylonia through the 20th Century. In so doing, they provide a critical reflection on the foundations of mathematics, as well as instigate new research questions, and explore the interfaces between teaching and research.
Mathematics And Measurement
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Author : O. A. Dilke
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Mathematics And Measurement written by O. A. Dilke and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Science categories.
Describes the systems of mathematics and measurement used in the ancient world and discusses the influence of ancient mathematics on later science
Selected Essays On Pre And Early Modern Mathematical Practice
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Author : Jens Høyrup
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-09-20
Selected Essays On Pre And Early Modern Mathematical Practice written by Jens Høyrup and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-20 with Mathematics categories.
This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics, mostly focusing on particular aspects of mathematical practice. This book is of interest to, and provides methodological inspiration for, historians of science or mathematics and students of these disciplines.
Mathematics In Ancient Iraq
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Author : Eleanor Robson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Mathematics In Ancient Iraq written by Eleanor Robson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with Mathematics categories.
This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics was not just an abstract discipline for elites but a key component in ordering society and understanding the world. The region of modern-day Iraq is uniquely rich in evidence for ancient mathematics because its prehistoric inhabitants wrote on clay tablets, many hundreds of thousands of which have been archaeologically excavated, deciphered, and translated. Drawing from these and a wealth of other textual and archaeological evidence, Robson gives an extraordinarily detailed picture of how mathematical ideas and practices were conceived, used, and taught during this period. She challenges the prevailing view that they were merely the simplistic precursors of classical Greek mathematics, and explains how the prevailing view came to be. Robson reveals the true sophistication and beauty of ancient Middle Eastern mathematics as it evolved over three thousand years, from the earliest beginnings of recorded accounting to complex mathematical astronomy. Every chapter provides detailed information on sources, and the book includes an appendix on all mathematical cuneiform tablets published before 2007.
Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100 1600 Bc
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Author : Eleanor Robson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100 1600 Bc written by Eleanor Robson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
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.
Varia Mesopotamica
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Author : Jens Høyrup
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2025-05-16
Varia Mesopotamica written by Jens Høyrup and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-16 with Mathematics categories.
The central theme of the 21 essays collected here and written between 1989 and 2019 is Ancient Mesopotamian Mathematics - its techniques and concepts, but also its historical dynamics and its influence on later Greek and Arabic (and thus to later European) mathematical reasoning. In addition, the first essay deals with historical dynamics in the field of language and argues that the Sumerian as a language originated from a creole language of the slaves of the late fourth millennium and only thereafter developed into the elaborate Sumerian language attested in the late 3rd Millennium BCE.