An Early Dynastic/Early Sargonic Metro-Mathematical Recombination Text from Umma with Commercial Exercises
Book chapter, 2016
CUNES 52-18-035 is a fairly well preserved Early Dynastic III/Early Sargonic clay tablet (2350-2300 BC), piblished by Vitali Bartash in CUSAS 23(2013), no. 77, as a text from the Umma region. It is a metro-mathematical recombination text with (at least) seven simple but closely related exercises, complete with questions and answers, but with no solution procedures.
Division Problem
Original Amount
Multiplication Exercise
Capacity Measure
Silver Mina
Author
Jöran Friberg
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences
Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi
SOAS University of London
Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
21968810 (ISSN) 21968829 (eISSN)
481-486Subject Categories
Specific Literatures
Other Mathematics
General Literature Studies
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-44597-7_12