Three thousand years of sexagesimal numbers in Mesopotamian mathematical texts

DOI10.1007/S00407-019-00221-3zbMath1412.01008OpenAlexW2912194467MaRDI QIDQ1728759

Jöran Friberg

Publication date: 26 February 2019

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00221-3

zbMATH Keywords

Mesopotamian mathematicssexagesimal numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

Cites Work

• New mathematical cuneiform texts
• Babylonian mathematical astronomy: Procedure texts
• A remarkable collection of Babylonian mathematical texts. Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I
• Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk
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