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Ancient Accounting in the Modern Mathematics Classroom (2008)

Clark, Kathleen M. (Author)
Robson, Eleanor (Author)

British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 23
Pages: 129--142

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Florida State University owns a collection of twenty-five cuneiform tablets, acquired from Edgar J Banks in the 1920s. We describe their rediscovery, present an edition of one of them (a twenty-first century BC labour account from the Sumerian city of Umma), and discuss their potential for use in undergraduate mathematics education.1

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