Cultures of computation and quantification in the Ancient World: numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Chemla, Karine 1957-
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Keller, Agathe, 1969- , [HerausgeberIn] Proust, Christine , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cham, Switzerland:
Springer,
2022.
© 2022 |
| Umfang/Format: |
x, 765 pages; illustrations, 24 cm |
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Why the sciences of the ancient world matter
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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. .
