Algebra in Cuneiform: Introduction to an Old Babylonian Geometrical Technique
This textbook analyzes a number of texts in “conformal translation,” that is, a translation in which the same Babylonian term is always translated in the same way and, more importantly, in which different terms are always translated differently. Appendixes are provided for readers who are familiar w...
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