Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: A reassessment of Plimpton 322

DOI10.1006/hmat.2001.2317zbMath0991.01001OpenAlexW2025813811WikidataQ54211231 ScholiaQ54211231MaRDI QIDQ5953247

Eleanor Robson

Publication date: 26 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e3d8eedb-e745-45b3-8612-71f8951599aa

zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean tripleshistoriography of Babylonian mathematicsPlimpton 322reciprocals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Historiography (01A85) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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