Jöran Friberg; Farouk N. H. Al-Rawi. New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts . (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) xvii + 553 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. €100.69 (cloth). ISBN 9783319445977. - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
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Jöran Friberg; Farouk N. H. Al-Rawi. New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts . (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) xvii + 553 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. €100.69 (cloth). ISBN 9783319445977.

Christine Proust

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This book offers a collection of newly published or revisited mathematical cuneiform texts from different periods: Early Dynastic III (ca. 2600-2500 B.C.E.), Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 B.C.E.), Old Babylonian (2000-1600 B.C.E. [hereafter OB]), and Late Babylonian (ca. 563-547 B.C.E. [hereafter LB]). Most of the texts are kept in the British Museum, the Iraq Museum, and the Suleimaniyah Museum and were identified and copied by Farouk Al-Rawi. The book offers, in addition, a complete overview of known numerical and metrological tables dated to the Achaemenid and Seleucid periods (last centuries of the first millennium B.C.E.), with photos and complete transliterations that have not been published before.
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Christine Proust. Jöran Friberg; Farouk N. H. Al-Rawi. New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts . (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) xvii + 553 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. €100.69 (cloth). ISBN 9783319445977.. Isis, 2020, 111 (1), pp.152-154. ⟨10.1086/707658⟩. ⟨hal-03995909⟩
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