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Mesopotamian Mathematics, Seen “from the Inside” (by Assyriologists) and “from the Outside” (by Historians of Mathematics) (2016)

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Authors & Contributors
Muroi, Kazuo
Yusta, Piedad
Robson, Eleanor
Melville, Duncan J.
Middeke-Conlin, Robert
Zhao, Jiwei
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Theoria (0495-4548)
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Astronomy
Cuneiform inscriptions
Algebra
Primary literature (historical sources)
People
Diophantos of Alexandria
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Greece
India
Larsa
Egypt
Institutions
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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