Publication

2008 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

110,250 words, Guess

Page Count

441 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007041758
  • Goodreads6281923
  • LibraryThing6815194
  • WikidataQ126658857

Classifications

  • DDC510.935
  • LCCQA22 .R629 2008

Description

Mixes archaeological and social (including textual and linguistic) detail to trace the development and use of mathematics in ancient Iraq over the last three centuries BCE.

First Sentence

Iraq - Sumer - Babylonia - Mesopotamia: under any or all of these names almost every general textbook on the history of mathematics assigns the origins of 'pure' mathematics to the distant past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryMathematicsEducation, iraqAncient MathematicsMathematics, historyMathematics -- Iraq -- HistoryMathematics, Ancient -- Iraq -- History

Places

Other Editions

  • Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social historyPrinceton University Press2008-01-01

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