As the Outsider Walked in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics Until Neugebauer

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-25865-2_5zbMath1342.01046OpenAlexW2504281183MaRDI QIDQ2798193

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 1 April 2016

Published in: Archimedes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://rucforsk.ruc.dk/ws/files/31560363/Hoyrup_2010_c_As_the_Outside_Walked_In_preprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Otto Neugebauersexagesimal systemcuneiform tabletsMesopotamian metrology and school mathematicssolution of mixed quadratic problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Historiography (01A85) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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Cites Work

• The antecedents of Old Babylonian place notation and the early history of Babylonian mathematics
• Die Algebra der Babylonier