Algebra in the scribal school -- schools in Old Babylonia algebra?

DOI10.1007/BF02914122zbMath0911.01001MaRDI QIDQ1267400

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 4 May 1999

Published in: NTM. Neue Serie (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic equationspractical geometrysurveyors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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• Investigations of an early Sumerian division problem, c. 2500 B.C
• Zur Frühgeschichte algebraischer Denkweisen. (On the early history of algebraic thinking)
• A note on Old Babylonian computational techniques
• Die älteste mathematische Aufgabensammlung in lateinischer Sprache: Die Alkuin zugeschriebenen
• Bisectable Trapezia in Babylonian Mathematics

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