Mathematics in ancient Iraq : a social history /
This work traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Near East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of the indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[2008]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv10qqzk0 |
| Summary: | This work traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Near East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of the indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 441 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-407) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780691201405 0691201404 9780691091822 069109182X |