Article ID: CBB000933757

Reconstructing the Proof of the Babylonian Volume Formula for the Frustum of a Square Pyramid (2009)

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Zhao, Jiwei (Author)
Wang, Peng-yun (Author)


Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Volume: 28
Pages: 183--190


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese

In ancient Babylonian mathematics, the expression of volume forumla for the frustrum of a square pyramid is much more complicated than its modern form. Many workds of the history of mathematics just list hte formula without explaination. Ivor Gratta Guiness gave ane xplanation about the forumla by means of the semnetation methnod used by the ancient Chinese matehmatician Liu Hui This paper points out theat Guinness' combination of the segments is not quite resonable and reconstructs the proof for the Babylonian volume formula.

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Authors & Contributors
Yusta, Piedad
Muroi, Kazuo
Høyrup, Jens
Proust, Christine
Melville, Duncan J.
Kolev, Rumen
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Theoria (0495-4548)
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Science in Context
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Publishers
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Tablets; papyri
Primary literature (historical sources)
Pyramids
Algorithms
People
Euclid
Diophantos of Alexandria
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Greece
Egypt
India
Babylon (extinct city)
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