Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social HistoryPrinceton University Press, 30/06/2020 - 472 من الصفحات This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics was not just an abstract discipline for elites but a key component in ordering society and understanding the world. |
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Notes 345 | |
CHAPTER TWO Before the MidThird Millennium 27 | |
CHAPTER THREE The Later Third Millennium 54 | |
Assyria CHAPTER FIVE 125 | 3 |
CHAPTER SIX The Later Second Millennium 151 | 27 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Early First Millennium 183 | 56 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Early Second Millennium | 85 |
CHAPTEREIGHT The Later First Millennium 214 | 91 |
CHAPTER NINE Epilogue 263 | 125 |
Metrological Systems 291 | 61 |
Bibliography 373 | 68 |
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