Mathematics and Computer Education, January 1st, 2007
UNEXPECTED LINKS BETWEEN EGYPTIAN AND BABYLONIAN MATHEMATICS by Jöran Friberg World Scientific, 2005, 294 pp. ISBN: 981-256-328-8
Jöran Friberg, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is one of the foremost experts on Mesopotamian mathematics. Friberg's decades of study of ancient texts has given him an encyclopedic knowledge of the content of thousands of cuneiform tablets and hieratic and demotic papyri. Unexpected Links between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics presents a detailed argument in favor of the notion that Babylonian mathematics influ...
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