Plimpton 322: a review and a different perspective

DOI10.1007/s00407-011-0083-4zbMath1228.01002MaRDI QIDQ642097

Christine Proust, John P. Britton, Steven Shnider

Publication date: 25 October 2011

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-011-0083-4

zbMATH Keywords

Babylonian mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A17: History of Babylonian mathematics

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