Article ID: CBB000102557

On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six “Algebras” (2001)

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Description On a set of quasi-algebraic riddles that appear to have circulated among Near Eastern practical geometers since c. 2000 BCE, and which inspired first the so-called “algebra” of the Old Babylonian scribal school and later the geometry of Elements II.


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Authors & Contributors
Yusta, Piedad
Muroi, Kazuo
Zhao, Jiwei
Wang, Peng-yun
Vitrac, Bernard
Siebert, Harald
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Theoria (0495-4548)
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Synthese
Publishers
Springer
Harvard University
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Transmission of texts
Tablets; papyri
Manuscripts
Algebra
People
Euclid
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig
Diophantos of Alexandria
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Archimedes
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
19th century
Places
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Denmark
India
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