Foundations of Mathematics Buried in School Garbage (Southern Mesopotamia, Early Second Millennium BCE)

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-01617-3_1zbMath1423.97005OpenAlexW2909594352MaRDI QIDQ5241550

Christine Proust

Publication date: 31 October 2019

Published in: Interfaces between Mathematical Practices and Mathematical Education (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01617-3_1

zbMATH Keywords

volumefactorizationreciprocalcurriculumcoefficientsexagesimal place-value notationscribal schoolscuneiform mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of mathematics education (97-03)

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