1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164982803321

Autore

Friberg Jöran

Titolo

New mathematical cuneiform texts / / Jöran Friberg, Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

3-319-44597-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, , 2196-8829

Disciplina

510.71

Soggetti

Mathematics, Babylonian

Mathematics, Ancient

Mathematics

History

Semitic languages

History of Mathematical Sciences

Semitic Languages

Popular Science in Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Late Babylonian Tables of Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers, from Babylon, Sippar, and Uruk -- Direct and Inverse Factorization Algorithms for Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers -- Metrological Table Texts from Achaemenid Uruk -- CBS 8539. A Mixed Metrological Table Text from Achaemenid Nippur -- Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form -- Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form -- A Recombination Text from Old Babylonian Shaduppûm Concerned with Economic Transactions -- Six Fragments of Problem Texts of Group 6, from Late Old Babylonian Sippar -- More Mathematical Cuneiform Texts of Group 6 from Late Old Babylonian Sippar -- Goetze’s Compendium from Old Babylonian Shaduppûm and



Two Catalog Texts from Old Babylonian Susa -- Three Old Babylonian Recombination Texts of Mathematical Problems without Solution Procedures, Making up Group 2b -- An Early Dynastic/Early Sargonic Metro-Mathematical Recombination Text from Umma with Commercial Exercises -- An Ur III Table of Reciprocals without Place Value Numbers -- Fragments of Three Tablets from Ur III Nippur with Drawings of Labyrinths.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script. It is a continuation of the work A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts (Springer 2007) written by Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics. Focussing on the big picture, Friberg explores in this book several Late Babylonian arithmetical and metro-mathematical table texts from the sites of Babylon, Uruk and Sippar, collections of mathematical exercises from four Old Babylonian sites, as well as a new text from Early Dynastic/Early Sargonic Umma, which is the oldest known collection of mathematical exercises. A table of reciprocals from the end of the third millennium BC, differing radically from well-documented but younger tables of reciprocals from the Neo-Sumerian and Old-Babylonian periods, as well as a fragment of a Neo-Sumerian clay tablet showing a new type of a labyrinth are also discussed. The material is presented in the form of photos, hand copies, transliterations and translations, accompanied by exhaustive explanations. The previously unpublished mathematical cuneiform texts presented in this book were discovered by Farouk Al-Rawi, who also made numerous beautiful hand copies of most of the clay tablets. Historians of mathematics and the Mesopotamian civilization, linguists and those interested in ancient labyrinths will find New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts particularly valuable. The book contains many texts of previously unknown types and material that is not available elsewhere.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910706548603321

Autore

Roman Irwin <1893->

Titolo

Apparent resistivity of a single uniform overburden / / by Irwin Roman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1960

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 99 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 365

Soggetti

Electric prospecting

Electric resistance

Prospecting - Geophysical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 30, 2014).

"An analysis of the two-boundary resistive problem with tables for numerical applications."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 99).