Titlebook: Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal; Carlos Gonçalves Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 Babylonian mathematic

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2196-8810 ies, and a general vocabulary..Contributes to a geography of.This work offers a re-edition of twelve mathematical tablets from the site of Tell Harmal, in the borders of present-day Baghdad. In ancient times, Tell Harmal was Šaduppûm, a city representative of the region of the Diyala river and of th

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Book 2015ell Harmal was Šaduppûm, a city representative of the region of the Diyala river and of the kingdom of Ešnunna, to which it belonged for a time. These twelve tablets were originally published in separate articles in the beginning of the 1950s and mostly contain solved problem texts. Some of the prob

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On Old Babylonian Mathematics and Its History: A Contribution to a Geography of Mathematical Practi Mediterranean coast; Ugarit, on the very coast of the Mediterranean and Amarna, in Egypt. These tablets range from the late fourth millennium to the Seleucid period. However, the vast majority of mathematical tablets that have been dealt with by specialists date to the Old Babylonian period.

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A Few Remarks About Old Babylonian Mathematics, a certain measure, from the temptation of using our symbolic school algebra to interpret the contents of the tablets. All in all, the discussion of these features is necessary in order to characterise the cuneiform mathematical tradition, as much as possible, in its own terms.

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Mathematical Tablets,were designed to satisfy the readers’ appetite for the mathematical ideas and techniques that these texts bear..Besides, in this chapter, I also offer some philological remarks and a mathematical analysis for each tablet.

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