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Mixes archaeological and social (including textual and linguistic) detail to trace the development and use of mathematics in ancient Iraq over the last three centuries BCE.

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Princeton University Press
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English
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441

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History, Mathematics, Ancient Mathematics, Mathematics, history, Education, iraq
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First Sentence

"Iraq - Sumer - Babylonia - Mesopotamia: under any or all of these names almost every general textbook on the history of mathematics assigns the origins of 'pure' mathematics to the distant past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers."

Table of Contents

List of Figures Page xi
List of Tables Page xvii
Preface Page xxi
Acknowledgements Page xxv
1. Scope, Methods, Sources Page 1 1.1. The Subject: Ancient Ireq and Its Mathematics Page 1 1.2. The Artefacts: Assyriological and Mathematical Analysis Page 8 1.3. The Contexts: Textuality, Materiality, and Social History Page 17 2. Before the Mid-Third Millennium Page 27 2.1. Background and Evidence Page 28 2.2. Quantitavie Management and Emerging Statehood Page 33 2.3. Enumeration and Abstraction Page 40 2.4. Symmetry, Geometry, and Visual Culture Page 45 2.5. Conclusions Page 51 3. The Later Third Millennium Page 54 3.1. Background and Evidence Page 55 3.2. Maps, Plans, and Itineraries: Visual and Textual Representations of Spatial Relationships Page 60 3.3. Accounting for Time and Labour: Approximation, Standardisation, Prediction Page 67 3.4. The Development of the Sexagesimal Place Value System (SPVS) Page 75 3.5. Conclusions Page 83 4. The Early Second Millennium Page 85 4.1. Background and Evidence Page 86 4.2. Metrology, Multiplication, Memorisation: Elementary Mathematics Education Page 97 4.3. Words and Pictures, Reciprocals and Squares Page 106 4.4. Measurement, Justice, and the Ideology of Kingship Page 115 4.5. Conclusions Page 123 5. Assyria Page 125 5.1. Background and Evidence Page 126 5.2. Palatial and Mercantile Numeracy in Early Assyria Page 129 5.3. Counting Heads, Marking Time: Quantifications in Royal Inscriptions and Records Page 136 5.4. Aru: Number Manipulation in Neo-Assyrian Scholarship Page 143 5.5. Conclusions Page 149 6. The Later Second Millennium Page 151 6.1. Background and Evidence Page 151 6.2. Tabular Accounting in Southern Babylonia Page 157 6.3. Land Surveyors and Their Records in Northern Babylonia Page 166 6.4. Quantification as Literary Device in the Epic of Gilgames Page 177 6.5. Conclusions Page 181 7. The Early First Millenium Page 183 7.1. Background and Evidence Page 184 7.2. Libraries and Schools: The Formalisation of the First-Millennium Scribal Curriculum Page 192 7.3. Home Economics: Numeracy in a Mid-First-Millennium Urban Household Page 198 7.4. Measuring Houses, Maintaining Professionalism Page 206 7.5. Conclusions Page 212 8. The Later First Millenium Page 214 8.1. Background and Evidence Page 215 8.2. Babylon: Mathematics in the Service of Astronomy? Page 220 8.3. Achaemenid Uruk: The Sangu-Ninurta and Ekur-zakir Families Page 227 8.4. Selucid Uruk: The Hunzu and Sin-leqi-unninni Families Page 240 8.5. Conclusions Page 260 9. Epilogue Page 263 9.1. The Big Picture: Three Millennia of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq Page 263 9.2. Ancient Mathematics in the Modern World Page 268 9.3. Inside Ancient Mathematics: Translation, Representation, Interpretation Page 274 9.4. The Worlds of Ancient Mathematics: History, Society, Community Page 284 9.5. Conclusions Page 288 Appendix A: Metrological Systems Page 291 Appendix B: Pulished Mathematicsl Tablets Page 299 Notes Page 342 Bibliography Page 373 Index of Tablets Page 409 Subject Index Page 425

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and indexes.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510.935
Library of Congress
QA22 .R629 2008, QA22.R629 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 441 p. :
Number of pages
441

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23145375M
Internet Archive
mathematicsancie00robs_842
ISBN 10
069109182X
ISBN 13
9780691091822
LCCN
2007041758
OCLC/WorldCat
174112760
Library Thing
6815194
Goodreads
6281923

First Sentence

"Iraq - Sumer - Babylonia - Mesopotamia: under any or all of these names almost every general textbook on the history of mathematics assigns the origins of 'pure' mathematics to the distant past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers."

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