LEADER 04066nam 22006255 450 001 9910300242603321 005 20200725103736.0 010 $a3-319-22524-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-22524-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000515636 035 $a(EBL)4092964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001585293 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16263867 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001585293 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14864905 035 $a(PQKB)10516185 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-22524-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4092964 035 $a(PPN)190532955 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000515636 100 $a20151113d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal /$fby Carlos Gonçalves 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (154 p.) 225 1 $aSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,$x2196-8810 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-22523-5 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. The Site of Tell Harmal and the Archaeological Record -- 2. A Few Remarks About Old Babylonian Mathematics -- 3. Conventions -- 4. Mathematical Tablets -- 5. On Old Babylonian Mathematics and its History -- 6. General Vocabulary -- References. 330 $aThis work offers a re-edition of twelve mathematical tablets from the site of Tell Harmal, in the borders of present-day Baghdad. In ancient times, Tell Harmal was ?aduppûm, a city representative of the region of the Diyala river and of the kingdom of E?nunna, to which it belonged for a time. These twelve tablets were originally published in separate articles in the beginning of the 1950s and mostly contain solved problem texts. Some of the problems deal with abstract matters such as triangles and rectangles with no reference to daily life, while others are stated in explicitly empirical contexts, such as the transportation of a load of bricks, the size of a vessel, the number of men needed to build a wall and the acquisition of oil and lard. This new edition of the texts is the first to group them, and takes into account all the recent developments of the research in the history of Mesopotamian mathematics. Its introductory chapters are directed to readers interested in an overview of the mathematical contents of these tablets and the language issues involved in their interpretation, while a chapter of synthesis discusses the ways history of mathematics has typically dealt with the mathematical evidence and inquires how and to what degree mathematical tablets can be made part of a picture of the larger social context. Furthermore, the volume contributes to a geography of the Old Babylonian mathematical practices, by evidencing that scribes at ?aduppûm made use of cultural material that was locally available. The edited texts are accompanied by translations, philological, and mathematical commentaries. 410 0$aSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,$x2196-8810 606 $aMathematics 606 $aHistory 606 $aSocial sciences 606 $aHistory of Mathematical Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M23009 606 $aMathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M32000 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aSocial sciences. 615 14$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences. 615 24$aMathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 676 $a510.935 700 $aGonçalves$b Carlos$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0755648 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300242603321 996 $aMathematical tablets from Tell Harmal$91522767 997 $aUNINA