Article ID: CBB000058690

“Remarkable numbers” in Old Babylonian mathematical texts: A note on the psychology of numbers (1993)

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Authors & Contributors
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Hollenback, George M.
Viola, Tullio
Tsaban, Boaz
Schmidt, Olaf
Roero, Clara Silvia
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Skeptic
Publishers
Thames & Hudson
Princeton University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Gallimard
Fink
Concepts
Numerology
Number theory; number concept
Numbers
Irrational numbers
Pi
Astronomical chronology
People
Arnim, Ludwig Achim von
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
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