Investigations of an early Sumerian division problem, c. 2500 B.C

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(82)90135-5zbMath0483.01002OpenAlexW2067971659MaRDI QIDQ1162994

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(82)90135-5

zbMATH Keywords

early Sumerian divisionSumerian school tablets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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• The antecedents of Old Babylonian place notation and the early history of Babylonian mathematics
• The Arithmetic of Abū'l-Wafā'
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