Another look at the two Egyptian pyramid volume ‘formulas’ of 1850 BCE

DOI10.1080/26375451.2022.2106061MaRDI QIDQ5879359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Publication date 28 February 2023

Published in British Journal for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2022.2106061

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methodology of mathematics (00A35) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics education (97-03)

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