The ritual origin of geometry

DOI10.1007/BF00327767MaRDI QIDQ1130775zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. Seidenberg

Publication date 1962

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327767

zbMATH Keywords

history

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General histories, source books (01A05) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03)

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