Mathematics in ancient Iraq
a social history
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Author
Publication
2008 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
110,250 words, Guess
Page Count
441 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23145375M
- ISBN-139780691091822
- ISBN-10069109182X
- OCLC Control Number174112760
- OCLC Control Numbermathematicsancie00robs_842
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.
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