Egypt
Princeton University Press
- Book Review: Writings Of Early Scholars In The Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, And Greece
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Xianhua Wang) Annette Imhausen, Tanja Pommerening (ed.), Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 286. Berlin/New...
- New Book: Visible Language
Oriental Institute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the above link. Available as a PDF download. 12.33MB OIMP 32. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is...
- Book Review: Daughters Of Gaia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Christina A. Clark) Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. Table of Contents In her preface to Daughters of Gaia, Vivante declares that...
- Book Review: India And Egypt - Influences And Interactions
Egypt Daily Star "More than two thousand years ago an Indian sailor was found on one of the Red Sea coast; he was close to death and was taken to the authorities in Alexandria. Then the sailor made an offer if they let him go to his home country he would...
- 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...
Egypt
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
Edited by Victor J. Katz
Section Authors: Annette Imhausen, Eleanor Robson, Joseph W. Dauben, Kim Plofker & J. Lennart Berggren
In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English translations of key mathematical texts from the five most important ancient and medieval non-Western mathematical cultures, and to put them into full historical and mathematical context. The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam gives English readers a firsthand understanding and appreciation of these cultures' important contributions to world mathematics.
The five section authors--Annette Imhausen (Egypt), Eleanor Robson (Mesopotamia), Joseph Dauben (China), Kim Plofker (India), and J. Lennart Berggren (Islam)--are experts in their fields. Each author has selected key texts and in many cases provided new translations. The authors have also written substantial section introductions that give an overview of each mathematical culture and explanatory notes that put each selection into context.
- Book Review: Writings Of Early Scholars In The Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, And Greece
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Xianhua Wang) Annette Imhausen, Tanja Pommerening (ed.), Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 286. Berlin/New...
- New Book: Visible Language
Oriental Institute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the above link. Available as a PDF download. 12.33MB OIMP 32. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is...
- Book Review: Daughters Of Gaia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Christina A. Clark) Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. Table of Contents In her preface to Daughters of Gaia, Vivante declares that...
- Book Review: India And Egypt - Influences And Interactions
Egypt Daily Star "More than two thousand years ago an Indian sailor was found on one of the Red Sea coast; he was close to death and was taken to the authorities in Alexandria. Then the sailor made an offer if they let him go to his home country he would...
- 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...