Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC : technical constants in bureaucracy and education / by Eleanor Robson.
Edizione:
Repr
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Clarendon press, 2000.
Descrizione fisica:
XVI, 334 p. : ill ; 31 cm
Serie:
Oxford editions of cuneiform texts ; 14
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. List of tables. Abbreviations and conventions. 1. Introduction 2. Coefficints and coefficients lists 3. Geometrical coefficients 4. Brick and brickworks 5. Making bricks, carrying building materials, and combining coefficients 6. Earthworks and waterworks, other work-loads 7. Storage and metrology 8. Other coefficients 9. Mathematics in Ur III and OB administration 10. Mathematics in Ur III and OB scribal education 11. Conclusion. Appendices: 1. Transliteration of the coefficient lists 2. BM 15285 3. BM 96954+BM 102366+SÉ 93 4. BM 96957+VAT 6598 5. Mathematical rough work from OB Ur and elsewhere 6. Statistical analysis of baked bricks in British collections. References. Indices: 1. Indez of text disussed 2. Numerical values of coefficients 3. Akkadian and Sumerian words discussed
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