Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts

DOI10.1007/S00407-019-00245-9MaRDI QIDQ776905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrea Bréard, Constance A. Cook

Publication date 13 July 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00245-9

zbMATH Keywords

numbersstatisticscleromantic divinationdices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) History of probability theory (60-03) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History of number theory (11-03)

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