Egypt
- New Book: Egyptian Tomb Architecture
British Archaeological Reports Egyptian Tomb Architecture The archaeological facts of pharaonic circular symbolism By David I. Lightbody. ISBN 9781407303390. £25.00. xiii+88 pages; 77 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 4 data Appendices....
- Gone With The Wind - Coptic Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) The Coptic calendar, the oldest in history, had been in existence for at least three millennia before Christ. Indeed, what today is termed the Coptic Christian calendar is essentially derived from earlier models of ancient...
- No Calculators, Just A Brush And Papyrus
The Signal David Reimer, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, presented "The Strange Math of the Egyptians" at the College on Nov 14. The lecture focused on re-evaluating how modern mathematicians view ancient Egyptian mathematics. Reimer,...
- New Book: The Mathematics Of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, And Islam
Princeton University Press The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook Edited by Victor J. Katz Section Authors: Annette Imhausen, Eleanor Robson, Joseph W. Dauben, Kim Plofker & J. Lennart Berggren In recent decades...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...
Egypt
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr1.htm
"The Greeks developed mathematics as a deductive science that reached its climax with Euclid of Alexandria in his masterpiece The Elements. Before that, during the ancient Egyptian era, mathematics was an inductive discipline of a utilitarian nature used to perform practical tasks such as flood control or land measurement using rope. It has been suggested that mathematics then amounted to no more than the two-times table and the ability to find two-thirds of any number. The whole structure of Egyptian mathematics was said to be based on these two simple rules, and indeed no evidence exists of a textual geometry with constructions and proofs.
Yet, looking at the Egyptians' stunning monuments, as well as a civilisation that spanned three millennia, one might expect to find a similar element of grandeur in their sciences -- especially in mathematics and astronomy. How did they configure the manpower and materials needed to build more than 90 pyramids? It is obvious that to calculate the vast amount of computations they needed, the ancient Egyptians reached a fairly advanced mathematical knowledge."
Yet, looking at the Egyptians' stunning monuments, as well as a civilisation that spanned three millennia, one might expect to find a similar element of grandeur in their sciences -- especially in mathematics and astronomy. How did they configure the manpower and materials needed to build more than 90 pyramids? It is obvious that to calculate the vast amount of computations they needed, the ancient Egyptians reached a fairly advanced mathematical knowledge."
See the above article on the Al Ahram Weekly website for the full article.
- New Book: Egyptian Tomb Architecture
British Archaeological Reports Egyptian Tomb Architecture The archaeological facts of pharaonic circular symbolism By David I. Lightbody. ISBN 9781407303390. £25.00. xiii+88 pages; 77 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 4 data Appendices....
- Gone With The Wind - Coptic Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) The Coptic calendar, the oldest in history, had been in existence for at least three millennia before Christ. Indeed, what today is termed the Coptic Christian calendar is essentially derived from earlier models of ancient...
- No Calculators, Just A Brush And Papyrus
The Signal David Reimer, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, presented "The Strange Math of the Egyptians" at the College on Nov 14. The lecture focused on re-evaluating how modern mathematicians view ancient Egyptian mathematics. Reimer,...
- New Book: The Mathematics Of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, And Islam
Princeton University Press The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook Edited by Victor J. Katz Section Authors: Annette Imhausen, Eleanor Robson, Joseph W. Dauben, Kim Plofker & J. Lennart Berggren In recent decades...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...