New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts

This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script.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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Friberg, Jöran (Autor), Al-Rawi, Farouk N.H (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
Temas:
Mathematics.
History.
Oriental languages.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Oriental or Semitic Languages.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Late Babylonian Tables of Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers, from Babylon, Sippar, and Uruk
  • Direct and Inverse Factorization Algorithms for Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers
  • Metrological Table Texts from Achaemenid Uruk
  • CBS 8539. A Mixed Metrological Table Text from Achaemenid Nippur
  • Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form
  • Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form
  • A Recombination Text from Old Babylonian Shaduppûm Concerned with Economic Transactions
  • Six Fragments of Problem Texts of Group 6, from Late Old Babylonian Sippar
  • More Mathematical Cuneiform Texts of Group 6 from Late Old Babylonian Sippar
  • Goetze's Compendium from Old Babylonian Shaduppûm and Two Catalog Texts from Old Babylonian Susa
  • Three Old Babylonian Recombination Texts of Mathematical Problems without Solution Procedures, Making up Group 2b
  • An Early Dynastic/Early Sargonic Metro-Mathematical Recombination Text from Umma with Commercial Exercises
  • An Ur III Table of Reciprocals without Place Value Numbers
  • Fragments of Three Tablets from Ur III Nippur with Drawings of Labyrinths.

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