The antecedents of Old Babylonian place notation and the early history of Babylonian mathematics

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(76)90071-9zbMATH Open0357.01001OpenAlexW2053965135MaRDI QIDQ1237700FDOQ1237700

Authors: Marvin A. jun. Powell 

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(76)90071-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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• After Neugebauer: Recent Developments in Mesopotamian Mathematics
• Place-value notations in the Ur III period: marginal numbers in administrative texts
• Investigations of an early Sumerian division problem, c. 2500 B.C
• An analysis of nonpositional numeral systems
• As the Outsider Walked in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics Until Neugebauer
• Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: A reassessment of Plimpton 322
• Mesopotamian Mathematics, Seen “from the Inside” (by Assyriologists) and “from the Outside” (by Historians of Mathematics)

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