| #7096852 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 1999-07-29 | 1999-07-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.80 x12.10l,2.03 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | ||||"A comprehensive, original, and technical study of a most characteristic feature of the mathematical tradition of Mesopotamia: fixed numbers that express all kinds of relations between items of the real world.... It surveys all that is known about constants i
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 sev...
You easily download any file type for your device.Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts) | Eleanor Robson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
