Cultures of computation and quantification in the Ancient World: numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia
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Chemla, Karine 1957-
, [HerausgeberIn]
Keller, Agathe, 1969- , [HerausgeberIn] Proust, Christine , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cham, Switzerland:
Springer,
2022.
© 2022 |
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x, 765 pages; illustrations, 24 cm |
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Why the sciences of the ancient world matter
6 |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Why the sciences of the Ancient World matter; |v volume 6 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical notes. | ||
| 505 | |a Chapter 1. Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world: An introduction (Karine Chemla, in dialogue with Agathe Keller and Christine Proust) -- Part 1: Shaping quantities and relating them to numbers -- Chapter 2. Carrying bricks and bundling reed in theory and practice (Wolfgang Heimpel) -- Chapter 3. Measuring grain in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia: Form, use, and control of the bariga container in the Twenty-First Century BCE (Walther Sallaberger) -- Chapter 4. Volume, brickage and capacity in old Babylonian mathematical texts from Southern Mesopotamia (Christine Proust) -- Part 2: Interpreting numbers and quantities in texts -- Place value notations in the Ur III period: Marginal numbers in administrative texts (Ouyang Xiaoli and Christine Proust) -- Chapter 6. The Nazbalum in old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Robert Middeke-Conlin) -- Part 3. Working with operations and algorithms -- Chapter 7. Computing tools and representations of arithmetic (Baptiste Mélès) -- Chapter 8. Working on and with division in early China, Third Century BCE—Seventh Century CE (Karine Chemla) -- Chapter 9. Multiplying integers: On the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors (Agathe Keller and Catherine Morice-Singh) -- Part 4. Different cultures of computation and quantification -- Chapter 10. Another culture of computation from 7th century China (Zhu Yiwen) -- Chapter 11. The characteristics of mathematical methods in the Wu Cao Suanjing and its social background (Zou Dahai and Chen Wei) -- Chapter 12. Weighing units and weights in the context of trade between upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE) (Cécile Michel) -- Chapter 13. Quantification and computation in the mathematical texts of old Babylonian Diyala (Carlos Gonçalves) -- Index. . | ||
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