LEADER 02252nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910247444103321 005 20210211 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283616 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/40631 035 $a(oapen)doab40631 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283616 100 $a20202102d2017 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAlgebra in Cuneiform: Introduction to an Old Babylonian Geometrical Technique 210 $cEdition Open Access$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (156 p.) 225 0 $aTextbooks 2: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge. 311 08$a3-945561-15-9 330 $aThis textbook analyzes a number of texts in "conformal translation," that is, a translation in which the same Babylonian term is always translated in the same way and, more importantly, in which different terms are always translated differently. Appendixes are provided for readers who are familiar with basic Assyriology but otherwise philological details are avoided. All of these texts are from the second half of the Old Babylonian period, that is, 1800-1600 BCE. It is indeed during this period that the "algebraic" discipline, and Babylonian mathematics in general, culminates. Even though a few texts from the late period show some similarities with what comes from the Old Babylonian period, they are but remnants. Beyond analyzing texts, the book gives a general characterization of the kind of mathematics involved, and locates it within the context of the Old Babylonian scribe school and its particular culture. Finally, it describes the origin of the discipline and its impact in later mathematics, not least Euclid's geometry and genuine algebra as created in medieval Islam and taken over in European medieval and Renaissance mathematics. 517 $aAlgebra in Cuneiform 610 $aEdition Open Access 610 $aMPRL 700 $aJens Høyrup$01313338 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910247444103321 996 $aAlgebra in Cuneiform: Introduction to an Old Babylonian Geometrical Technique$93031303 997 $aUNINA