Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian mathematics (Q2660401)

This is a presentation of two letters written in 1926 by Otto Neugebauer to the Egyptologist Thomas Eric Peet regarding the subject of his dissertation [\textit{O. Neugebauer}, Die Grundlagen der ägyptischen Bruchrechnung. Berlin: J. Springer (1926; JFM 52.0004.02)]. There are facsimiles of the two letters, the German originals, and English translations. The persons and matters referred to in the letters receive their due attention, such as the Egyptologist Battiscombe Gunn, the mathematician and historian of mathematics Raymond Clare Archibald, the mathematician and later Chancellor of Brown University, Arnold Buffum Chace, the philologist Kurt Sethe, as well as the contents of Neugebauer's dissertation. The letters of Peet to Neugebauer are lost.