Article ID: CBB613078944

Two Letters from Otto Neugebauer to Thomas Eric Peet on Ancient Egyptian Mathematics (2020)

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We describe two letters of 1926 from the historian of mathematics Otto Neugebauer to the Egyptologist Thomas Eric Peet (Griffith Institute Archive, Oxford: Peet MSS 4.9). The letters concern Neugebauer's study of certain parts of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, as found in the doctoral dissertation that he had completed in Göttingen that year, for which Peet's 1923 edition of the papyrus was a major source. In the letters, we see the young Neugebauer establishing himself within the wider Egyptological community. The letters open up a discussion of Peet's own work on ancient Egyptian mathematics. Zusammenfassung Wir beschreiben zwei Briefe des Mathematikhistorikers Otto Neugebauer an den Ägyptologen Thomas Eric Peet aus dem Jahr 1926 (Griffith Institute Archive, Oxford: Peet MSS 4.9). Diese Briefe handeln von Neugebauers Studien über bestimmte Passagen des mathematisches Papyrus Rhind, die er in seiner Doktorarbeit aus demselben Jahr vornahm. Neugebauer hatte nämlich als Hauptquelle auf Peets Edition des Papyrus von 1923 zurückgegriffen. In diesen Briefen können wir beobachten, wie sich der junge Neugebauer im erweiterten Kreis der Ägyptologen etabliert. Die Briefe eröffnen zugleich eine Diskussion über Peets eigene Arbeiten zur altägyptischen Mathematik.

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Authors & Contributors
Rowe, David E.
Proust, Christine
Miatello, Luca
Herrmann, Dietmar
Symons, Sarah
Steele, John M.
Concepts
Mathematics
Historians of science, modern
Pyramids
Astronomy
Arithmetic
Algorithms
Time Periods
Ancient
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Egypt
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Ancient Near and Middle East: Egypt, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Persia
Assyria
Palestine
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