New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts

Author : Jöran Friberg,Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319445977

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New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts by Jöran Friberg,Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi Pdf

This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script.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 The previously unpublished mathematical cuneiform texts presented in this book were discovered by Farouk Al-Rawi, who also made numerous beautiful hand copies of most of the clay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.

Author : Jöran Friberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387489773

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A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts by Jöran Friberg Pdf

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.

Author : Otto Neugebauer,Abraham Joseph Sachs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086397498

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Mathematical Cuneiform Texts by Otto Neugebauer,Abraham Joseph Sachs Pdf

Author : Otto Neugebauer,Abraham J. Sachs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:882529803

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Mathematical Cuneiform Texts by Otto Neugebauer,Abraham J. Sachs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 0940490242

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Mathematical Cuneiform Texts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jöran Friberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387345437

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A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts by Jöran Friberg Pdf

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.

Author : Gert Schubring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030016173

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Interfaces between Mathematical Practices and Mathematical Education by Gert Schubring Pdf

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.

Author : Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Lorenzo Verderame
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646020874

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Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies by Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Lorenzo Verderame Pdf

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Wilfred G. Lambert,Eva Von Dassow
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 9782503517407

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Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Wilfred G. Lambert,Eva Von Dassow Pdf

Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author : Frank J. Swetz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781421404370

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Mathematical Expeditions by Frank J. Swetz Pdf

"A collection of over 500 culturally and historically diverse mathematical problems carefully chosen to enrich mathematics teaching from middle school through the college level."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Annette Imhausen,Falk Müller,Moritz Epple
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593509778

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Weak Knowledge by Annette Imhausen,Falk Müller,Moritz Epple Pdf

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. Weak Knowledge aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientific findings but in their strength as accessible resources. The authors show how, throughout history, many bodies of research have become precarious due to a host of factors. These factors have included cultural or social disinterest, feeble empirical evidence or theoretical justifications, and a lack of practical applications in a given field's findings. This book brings together cases from a range of historical periods and disciplines, ranging from personal medicine to climatology, to illuminate the specific forms, functions, and dynamics of so-called "weak" bodies of knowledge.

Author : Alexander Jones,Christine Proust,John M. Steele
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319258652

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A Mathematician's Journeys by Alexander Jones,Christine Proust,John M. Steele Pdf

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.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401143011

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Mathematics Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Mathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Author : Joran Friberg
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814480406

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Unexpected Links Between Egyptian And Babylonian Mathematics by Joran Friberg Pdf

Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades. In contrast to this Egyptian mathematics is known from only a small number of papyrus texts, and the few books and papers that have been written about Egyptian mathematical papyri have mostly reiterated the same old presentations and interpretations of the texts.In this book, it is shown that the methods developed by the author for the close study of mathematical cuneiform texts can also be successfully applied to all kinds of Egyptian mathematical texts, hieratic, demotic, or Greek-Egyptian. At the same time, comparisons of a large number of individual Egyptian mathematical exercises with Babylonian parallels yield many new insights into the nature of Egyptian mathematics and show that Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics display greater similarities than expected.

Author : Karine Chemla,Glenn W. Most
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108880930

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Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World by Karine Chemla,Glenn W. Most Pdf

This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries. It focuses on examples in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient Greek, presenting the general issues by constant detailed reference to these commentaries, of which substantial extracts are included in the original languages and in translation, sometimes for the first time. This makes the issues accessible to readers without specialized training in mathematics or in the languages involved. The result is a much richer understanding than was hitherto possible of the crucial role of commentaries in the history of mathematics in four different linguistic areas, of the nature of mathematical commentaries in general, of the contribution that the study of mathematical commentaries can make to the history of science and to the study of commentaries in general, and of the ways in which mathematical commentaries are like and unlike other kinds of commentaries.