Mathematics in Ancient Egypt : : A Contextual History / / Annette Imhausen.
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC-and the earliest hints of writing and number notation-to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 5 halftones. 24 line illus. 11 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PREHISTORIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD
- 1.The Invention of Writing and Number Notation
- 2. The Egyptian Number System
- 3. Uses of Numbers and their Contexts in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Times
- 4. Summary
- OLD KINGDOM
- 5. The Cultural Context of Egyptian Mathematics in the Old Kingdom
- 6. Metrological Systems
- 7. Notation of Fractions
- 8. Summary
- MIDDLE KINGDOM
- 9. Mathematical Texts (I): The Mathematical Training of Scribes
- 10. Foundation of Mathematics
- 11. Mathematics in Practice and Beyond
- NEW KINGDOM
- 12. New Kingdom Mathematical Texts: Ostraca Senmut 153 and Turin 57170
- 13. Two Examples of Administrative Texts
- 14. Mathematics in Literature
- 15. Further Aspects of Mathematics from New Kingdom Sources
- 16. Summary
- GRECO-ROMAN PERIODS
- 17. Mathematical Texts (II): Tradition, Transmission, Development
- 18. Conclusion: Egyptian Mathematics in Historical Perspective
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Egyptian Words and Phrases Index
- Index of Mathematical Texts