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- 2006030851 contributor B10442696.
- 2006030851 created "c2007.".
- 2006030851 date "2007".
- 2006030851 date "c2007.".
- 2006030851 dateCopyrighted "c2007.".
- 2006030851 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2006030851 description "Preface -- Permissions -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Egyptian mathematics / Annette Imhausen -- Preliminary remarks -- 1. Introduction -- a. Invention of writing and number systems -- b. Arithmetic -- c. Metrology -- 2. Hieratic mathematical texts -- a. Table texts -- b. Problem texts -- 3. Mathematics in administrative texts -- a. Middle Kingdom texts : the Reisner papyri -- b. New Kingdom texts : Ostraca from Deir el Medina -- 4. Mathematics in the Graeco-Roman period -- a. Context -- b. Table texts -- c. Problem texts -- 5. Appendices -- a. Glossary of Egyptian terms -- b. Sources -- c. References --".
- 2006030851 description "ch. 2. Mesopotamian mathematics / Eleanor Robson -- 1. Introduction -- a. Mesopotamian mathematics through Western eyes -- b. Mathematics and scribal culture in ancient Iraq -- c. From tablet to translation -- d. Explananda -- 2. The long third millennium, c. 3200-2000 BCE -- a. Uruk in the late fourth millennium -- b. Shuruppag in the mid-third millennium -- c. Nippur and Girsu in the twenty-fourth century BCE -- d. Umma and Girsu in the twenty-first century BCE -- 3. The old Babylonian period, c. 2000-1600 BCE -- a. Arithmetical and metrological tables -- b. Mathematical problems -- c. Rough work and reference lists -- 4. Later Mesopotamia, c. 1400-150 BCE -- 5. Appendices -- a. Sources -- b. References --".
- 2006030851 description "ch. 5. Mathematics in medieval Islam / J. Lennart Berggren -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Appropriation of the ancient heritage -- 3. Arithmetic -- 4. Algebra -- 5. Number theory -- 6. Geometry -- a. Theoretical geometry -- b. Practical geometry -- 7. Trigonometry -- 8. Combinatorics -- 9. On mathematics -- 10. Appendices -- a. Sources -- b. References -- Contributors -- Index.".
- 2006030851 extent "xiv, 685 p. :".
- 2006030851 identifier "0691114854 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- 2006030851 identifier "9780691114859 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- 2006030851 identifier 2006030851-b.html.
- 2006030851 identifier 2006030851-d.html.
- 2006030851 identifier 2006030851.html.
- 2006030851 issued "2007".
- 2006030851 issued "c2007.".
- 2006030851 language "eng".
- 2006030851 publisher "Princeton : Princeton University Press,".
- 2006030851 subject "510.9 22".
- 2006030851 subject "Mathematics History Sources.".
- 2006030851 subject "Mathematics, Ancient Sources.".
- 2006030851 subject "QA22 .M3735 2007".
- 2006030851 tableOfContents "Preface -- Permissions -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Egyptian mathematics / Annette Imhausen -- Preliminary remarks -- 1. Introduction -- a. Invention of writing and number systems -- b. Arithmetic -- c. Metrology -- 2. Hieratic mathematical texts -- a. Table texts -- b. Problem texts -- 3. Mathematics in administrative texts -- a. Middle Kingdom texts : the Reisner papyri -- b. New Kingdom texts : Ostraca from Deir el Medina -- 4. Mathematics in the Graeco-Roman period -- a. Context -- b. Table texts -- c. Problem texts -- 5. Appendices -- a. Glossary of Egyptian terms -- b. Sources -- c. References --".
- 2006030851 tableOfContents "ch. 2. Mesopotamian mathematics / Eleanor Robson -- 1. Introduction -- a. Mesopotamian mathematics through Western eyes -- b. Mathematics and scribal culture in ancient Iraq -- c. From tablet to translation -- d. Explananda -- 2. The long third millennium, c. 3200-2000 BCE -- a. Uruk in the late fourth millennium -- b. Shuruppag in the mid-third millennium -- c. Nippur and Girsu in the twenty-fourth century BCE -- d. Umma and Girsu in the twenty-first century BCE -- 3. The old Babylonian period, c. 2000-1600 BCE -- a. Arithmetical and metrological tables -- b. Mathematical problems -- c. Rough work and reference lists -- 4. Later Mesopotamia, c. 1400-150 BCE -- 5. Appendices -- a. Sources -- b. References --".
- 2006030851 tableOfContents "ch. 5. Mathematics in medieval Islam / J. Lennart Berggren -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Appropriation of the ancient heritage -- 3. Arithmetic -- 4. Algebra -- 5. Number theory -- 6. Geometry -- a. Theoretical geometry -- b. Practical geometry -- 7. Trigonometry -- 8. Combinatorics -- 9. On mathematics -- 10. Appendices -- a. Sources -- b. References -- Contributors -- Index.".
- 2006030851 title "The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam : a sourcebook / Victor Katz, editor ; Annette Imhausen ... [et al.].".
- 2006030851 type "text".