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Mathematics in ancient Iraq

Eleanor Robson · 2008

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Mixes archaeological and social (including textual and linguistic) detail to trace the development and use of mathematics in ancient Iraq over the last three centuries BCE.

First sentence: Iraq - Sumer - Babylonia - Mesopotamia: under any or all of these names almost every general textbook on the history of mathematics assigns the origins of 'pure' mathematics to the distant past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Book details

Year
2008
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Editions
2
Pages
441
ISBN
9780691091822

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