Ancient Babylonian algorithms

DOI10.1145/361454.361514MaRDI QIDQ5657654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald E. Knuth

Publication date 1972

Published in Communications of the ACM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1145/361454.361514

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of numerical analysis (65-03)

Review text

Autorreferat: The early origins of mathematics are discussed, emphasizing those aspects which seem to be of greatest interest from the standpoint of computer science. A number of old Babylonian tablets.

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