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This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script.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 e...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Series: | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
