Poles and walls in Mesopotamia and Egypt

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2003.08.004zbMath1063.01005OpenAlexW1986235225MaRDI QIDQ1877687

Duncan J. Melville

Publication date: 19 August 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2003.08.004

zbMATH Keywords

Old BabyloniandemoticPythagorean problemsreed and wallSeleucid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

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