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This new text from Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics, presents 130 previously unpublished mathematical clay tablets from the Norwegian Schøyen collection, and provides a synthesis of the author's most important work.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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friberg, Jöran (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
Temas:
Mathematics.
History.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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