Book ID: CBB000950285

Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (2008)

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Robson, Eleanor (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xxvii + 441 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Jones, Alexander (2010) Review of "Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 286). unapi

Review Melville, Duncan J. (2009) Review of "Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History". Historia Mathematica (p. 428). unapi

Review Proust, Christine (2010) Review of "Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 201). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Robson, Eleanor
Proust, Christine
Muroi, Kazuo
Britton, John P.
Schiefsky, Mark
Yusta, Piedad
Concepts
Mathematics
Astronomy
Tablets; papyri
Geometry
Primary literature (historical sources)
Cuneiform inscriptions
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Greece
Sumer
Assyria
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