Diagrams in ancient Egyptian geometry. Survey and assessment
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Diagrams in ancient Egyptian geometry. Survey and assessment
zbMATH Open document ID: 1184.01005
author: Gregg De Young
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2009-12-16T00:00:00Z
review text: Aufgaben in ägyptischen mathematischen Texten sind häufig von entsprechenden Zeichnungen begleitet. Der Verf. stellt einen Katalog dieser Diagramme in den überlieferten Texten zusammen. Er diskutiert allgemeine Überlegungen über die Genauigkeit der Diagramme im Zusammenhang mit den Aufgabentexten und die Anordnung im Text sowie sonstige typische Eigenheiten. Zum Vergleich fügt er einen Anhang über Diagramme in Keilschrifttexten an.
reviewed by: Karl-Bernhard Gundlach
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A16
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A17
zbMATH DE Number: 5648709
zbMATH Keywords: diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: Egyptian geometry
describes a project that uses: DRaFT
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.hm.2009.02.004
OpenAlex ID: W129992836
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DOI: 10.1016/J.HM.2009.02.004
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5648709