Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world. Numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1MaRDI QIDQ6165029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 30 July 2023

Published in Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1

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Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest (00B15) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to history and biography (01-06) General histories, source books (01A05) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History of Indian mathematics (01A32)

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