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Mathematical tablets from Tell Harmal

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mathematical tablets from Tell Harmal/ by Carlos Goncalves.
Author:	Goncalves, Carlos.
Published:	Cham :Imprint: Springer, : 2015.,
Description:	xv, 141 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22524-1
ISBN:	9783319225241

Mathematical tablets from Tell Harmal
Goncalves, Carlos.

Mathematical tablets from Tell Harmal[electronic resource] /by Carlos Goncalves. - Cham :Imprint: Springer,2015. - xv, 141 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences,2196-8810. - Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences..

Introduction -- 1. The Site of Tell Harmal and the Archaeological Record -- 2. A Few Remarks About Old Babylonian Mathematics -- 3. Conventions -- 4. Mathematical Tablets -- 5. On Old Babylonian Mathematics and its History -- 6. General Vocabulary -- References.

This work offers a re-edition of twelve mathematical tablets from the site of Tell Harmal, in the borders of present-day Baghdad. In ancient times, Tell Harmal was Saduppum, a city representative of the region of the Diyala river and of the kingdom of Esnunna, to which it belonged for a time. These twelve tablets were originally published in separate articles in the beginning of the 1950s and mostly contain solved problem texts. Some of the problems deal with abstract matters such as triangles and rectangles with no reference to daily life, while others are stated in explicitly empirical contexts, such as the transportation of a load of bricks, the size of a vessel, the number of men needed to build a wall and the acquisition of oil and lard. This new edition of the texts is the first to group them, and takes into account all the recent developments of the research in the history of Mesopotamian mathematics. Its introductory chapters are directed to readers interested in an overview of the mathematical contents of these tablets and the language issues involved in their interpretation, while a chapter of synthesis discusses the ways history of mathematics has typically dealt with the mathematical evidence and inquires how and to what degree mathematical tablets can be made part of a picture of the larger social context. Furthermore, the volume contributes to a geography of the Old Babylonian mathematical practices, by evidencing that scribes at Saduppum made use of cultural material that was locally available. The edited texts are accompanied by translations, philological, and mathematical commentaries.

ISBN: 9783319225241

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-22524-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

885667
Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

LC Class. No.: QA22

Dewey Class. No.: 510.938

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