Mathematics in Ancient Iraq

Name: Mathematics in Ancient Iraq | A Social History
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A Social History

Eleanor Robson(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 30. Juni 2020

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Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Scope, Methods, Sources
1.1 The Subject: Ancient Iraq and Its Mathematics
1.2 The Artefacts: Assyriological and Mathematical Analysis
1.3 The Contexts: Textuality, Materiality, and Social History
Chapter Two: Before the Mid-Third Millennium
2.1 Background and Evidence
2.2 Quantitative Management and Emerging Statehood
2.3 Enumeration and Abstraction
2.4 Symmetry, Geometry, and Visual Culture
2.5 Conclusions
Chapter Three: The Later Third Millennium
3.1 Background and Evidence
3.2 Maps, Plans, and Itineraries: Visual and Textual Representations of Spatial Relationships
3.3 Accounting for Time and Labour: Approximation, Standardisation, Prediction
3.4 The Development of the Sexagesimal Place Value System (SPVS)
3.5 Conclusions
Chapter Four The Early Second Millennium
4.1 Background and Evidence
4.2 Metrology, Multiplication, Memorisation: Elementary Mathematics Education
4.3 Words and Pictures, Reciprocals and Squares
4.4 Measurement, Justice, and the Ideology of Kingship
4.5 Conclusions
Chapter Five: Assyria
5.1 Background and Evidence
5.2 Palatial and Mercantile Numeracy in Early Assyria
5.3 Counting Heads, Marking Time: Quantifi cations in Royal Inscriptions and Records
5.4 Arû: Number Manipulation in Neo-Assyrian Scholarship
5.5 Conclusions
Chapter Six: The Later Second Millennium
6.1 Background and Evidence
6.2 Tabular Accounting in Southern Babylonia
6.3 Land Surveyors and Their Records in Northern Babylonia
6.4 Quantifi cation as Literary Device in the Epic of Gilgames
6.5 Conclusions
Chapter Seven: The Early First Millennium
7.1 Background and Evidence
7.2 Libraries and Schools: The Formalisation of the First-Millennium Scribal Curriculum
7.3 Home Economics: Numeracy in a Mid-First-Millennium Urban Household
7.4 Measuring Houses, Maintaining Professionalism
7.5 Conclusions
Chapter Eight: The Later First Millennium
8.1 Background and Evidence
8.2 Babylon: Mathematics in the Service of Astronomy?
8.3 Achaemenid Uruk: The Sangû-Ninurta and Ekur-zakir Families
8.4 Seleucid Uruk: The ?unzû and Sîn-leqi-unninni Families
8.5 Conclusions
Chapter Nine: Epilogue
9.1 The Big Picture: Three Millennia of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq
9.2 Ancient Mathematics in the Modern World
9.3 Inside Ancient Mathematics: Translation, Representation, Interpretation
9.4 The Worlds of Ancient Mathematics: History, Society, Community
9.5 Conclusions
Appendix A: Metrological Systems
Appendix B: Published Mathematical Tablets
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Tablets
Subject Index

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