A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts : Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Cuneiform Texts I

This new text from Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics, presents 130 previously unpublished mathematical clay tablets from the Norwegian Schøyen collection, and provides a synthesis of the author's most important work. Through a close study of these tablets, Friberg has...

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Auteur principal : Friberg Jöran (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts : Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Cuneiform Texts I / Jöran Friberg.
Édition : 1st ed. 2007.
Publié : New York, NY : Springer New York , [20..]
Cham : Springer Nature
Collection : Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences (Internet)
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Contenu : Acknowledgements. Introduction. Documentation of Provenance. Abbreviations. How to Get a Better Understanding of Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. Old Babylonian Arithmetical Hand Tablets. Old Babylonian Arithmetical Table Texts. Old Babylonian Metrological Table Texts. Mesopotamian Weight Stones. Neo-Sumerian Field Maps (Ur III). An Old Sumerian Metro-Mathematical Table Text (Early Dynastic IIIa). Old Babylonian Hand Tablets with Practical Mathematics. Old Babylonian Hand Tablets with Geometric Exercises. The Beginning and the End of the Sumerian King List. Three Old Babylonian Mathematical Problem Texts from Uruk. Three Problem Texts Not Belonging to Any Known Group of Texts. App. 1. Subtractive Notations for Numbers in Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. App. 2. The Old Babylonian Combined Multiplication Table. App. 3. An Old Babylonian Combined Arithmetical Algorithm. App. 4. Cuneiform Systems of Notations for Numbers and Measures. App. 5. Old Babylonian Complete Metrological Tables. App. 6. Metro-Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from the Third Millennium BC. App. 7. CUNES 50-08-001. A Combined Metro-Mathematical Table Text (ED IIIb). App. 8. Plimpton 322, a Table of Parameters for igi igi.bi Problems. App. 9. Many-Place Squares of Squares in Late Babylonian Mathematical Texts. App. 10. Color Photos of Selected Texts. Vocabulary for the MS Texts. Index of Subjects. Index of Texts. References
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