Did Egyptian scribes have an algorithmic means for determining the circumference of a circle?

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2011.06.001zbMath1245.01009OpenAlexW2055454393MaRDI QIDQ643309

Leon Cooper

Publication date: 28 October 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2011.06.001

zbMATH Keywords

approximations of the number \(\pi\)area of a circlecircumference of a circleEgyptian mathematical papyri

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of algebraic geometry (14-03) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

Cites Work

• Mathematical bases of ancient Egyptian architecture and graphic art
• The origin of mathematics
• A new interpretation of problem 10 of the Moscow mathematical papyrus
• Lengths, widths, surfaces. A portrait of Old Babylonian algebra and its kin
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