Mathematics in Ancient Iraq

A Social History

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Mathematics in Ancient Iraq
Eleanor Robson
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Mathematics in Ancient Iraq

A Social History

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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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Cover of: Mathematics in Ancient Iraq
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
2020, Princeton University Press
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Cover of: Mathematics in ancient Iraq
Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history
2008, Princeton University Press
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OL34166230M
ISBN 13
9780691201405

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"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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