Author: Albrecht GötzePublisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
Author: Albrecht GötzePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
Author: Otto NeugebauerNew Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
Author: Jöran FribergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445979
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script.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 The previously unpublished mathematical cuneiform texts presented in this book were discovered by Farouk Al-Rawi, who also made numerous beautiful hand copies of most of the clay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.
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
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ISBN: 9780940490246
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts
Author: Jöran FribergPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387489770
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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. Edited by O. Neugebauer and A. Sachs. With a Chapter by A. Goetze. Published Jointly by the American Oriental Society and the American Schools of Oriental Research
Author: American Schools of Oriental ResearchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
Author: O. NeugebauerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Mesopotamian Mathematics, 2100-1600 BC
Author: Eleanor RobsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198152460
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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 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.
New Sumerian literary texts
Author: Thorkild JacobsenBabylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts
Author: Mathieu OssendrijverPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461437822
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This book contains new translations and a new analysis of the procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, the earliest known form of mathematical astronomy of the ancient world. The translations are based on a modern approach incorporating recent insights from Assyriology and translation science. The work contains updated and expanded interpretations of the astronomical algorithms and investigations of previously ignored linguistic, mathematical and other aspects of the procedure texts. Special attention is paid to issues of mathematical representation and over 100 photos of cuneiform tablets dating from 350-50 BCE are presented. In 2-3 years, the author intends to continue his study of Babylonian mathematical astronomy with a new publication which will contain new editions and reconstructions of approx. 250 tabular texts and a new philological, astronomical and mathematical analysis of these texts. Tabular texts are end products of Babylonian math astronomy, computed with algorithms that are formulated in the present volume, Procedure Texts.