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Mathematics in ancient Iraq

a social history

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Mixes archaeological and social (including textual and linguistic) detail to trace the development and use of mathematics in ancient Iraq over the last three centuries BCE.

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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
441

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Subjects

History, Mathematics, Ancient Mathematics, Mathematics, history, Education, iraq

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First Sentence

"Iraq - Sumer - Babylonia - Mesopotamia: under any or all of these names almost every general textbook on the history of mathematics assigns the origins of 'pure' mathematics to the distant past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers."

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Page xi
List of Tables
Page xvii
Preface
Page xxi
Acknowledgements
Page xxv
1. Scope, Methods, Sources
Page 1
1.1. The Subject: Ancient Ireq and Its Mathematics
Page 1
1.2. The Artefacts: Assyriological and Mathematical Analysis
Page 8
1.3. The Contexts: Textuality, Materiality, and Social History
Page 17
2. Before the Mid-Third Millennium
Page 27
2.1. Background and Evidence
Page 28
2.2. Quantitavie Management and Emerging Statehood
Page 33
2.3. Enumeration and Abstraction
Page 40
2.4. Symmetry, Geometry, and Visual Culture
Page 45
2.5. Conclusions
Page 51
3. The Later Third Millennium
Page 54
3.1. Background and Evidence
Page 55
3.2. Maps, Plans, and Itineraries: Visual and Textual Representations of Spatial Relationships
Page 60
3.3. Accounting for Time and Labour: Approximation, Standardisation, Prediction
Page 67
3.4. The Development of the Sexagesimal Place Value System (SPVS)
Page 75
3.5. Conclusions
Page 83
4. The Early Second Millennium
Page 85
4.1. Background and Evidence
Page 86
4.2. Metrology, Multiplication, Memorisation: Elementary Mathematics Education
Page 97
4.3. Words and Pictures, Reciprocals and Squares
Page 106
4.4. Measurement, Justice, and the Ideology of Kingship
Page 115
4.5. Conclusions
Page 123
5. Assyria
Page 125
5.1. Background and Evidence
Page 126
5.2. Palatial and Mercantile Numeracy in Early Assyria
Page 129
5.3. Counting Heads, Marking Time: Quantifications in Royal Inscriptions and Records
Page 136
5.4. Aru: Number Manipulation in Neo-Assyrian Scholarship
Page 143
5.5. Conclusions
Page 149
6. The Later Second Millennium
Page 151
6.1. Background and Evidence
Page 151
6.2. Tabular Accounting in Southern Babylonia
Page 157
6.3. Land Surveyors and Their Records in Northern Babylonia
Page 166
6.4. Quantification as Literary Device in the Epic of Gilgames
Page 177
6.5. Conclusions
Page 181
7. The Early First Millenium
Page 183
7.1. Background and Evidence
Page 184
7.2. Libraries and Schools: The Formalisation of the First-Millennium Scribal Curriculum
Page 192
7.3. Home Economics: Numeracy in a Mid-First-Millennium Urban Household
Page 198
7.4. Measuring Houses, Maintaining Professionalism
Page 206
7.5. Conclusions
Page 212
8. The Later First Millenium
Page 214
8.1. Background and Evidence
Page 215
8.2. Babylon: Mathematics in the Service of Astronomy?
Page 220
8.3. Achaemenid Uruk: The Sangu-Ninurta and Ekur-zakir Families
Page 227
8.4. Selucid Uruk: The Hunzu and Sin-leqi-unninni Families
Page 240
8.5. Conclusions
Page 260
9. Epilogue
Page 263
9.1. The Big Picture: Three Millennia of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq
Page 263
9.2. Ancient Mathematics in the Modern World
Page 268
9.3. Inside Ancient Mathematics: Translation, Representation, Interpretation
Page 274
9.4. The Worlds of Ancient Mathematics: History, Society, Community
Page 284
9.5. Conclusions
Page 288
Appendix A: Metrological Systems
Page 291
Appendix B: Pulished Mathematicsl Tablets
Page 299
Notes
Page 342
Bibliography
Page 373
Index of Tablets
Page 409
Subject Index
Page 425

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and indexes.

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Princeton, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510.935
Library of Congress
QA22 .R629 2008, QA22.R629 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 441 p. :
Number of pages
441

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23145375M
Internet Archive
mathematicsancie00robs_842
ISBN 10
069109182X
ISBN 13
9780691091822
LCCN
2007041758
OCLC/WorldCat
174112760
Library Thing
6815194
Wikidata
Q126658857
Goodreads
6281923

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First Sentence

"Iraq - Sumer - Babylonia - Mesopotamia: under any or all of these names almost every general textbook on the history of mathematics assigns the origins of 'pure' mathematics to the distant past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers."

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