Six Fragments of Problem Texts of Group 6, from Late Old Babylonian Sippar
Book chapter, 2016
BM 80078 is a relativelly large fragment originally forming the lower right cvorner of an Old Babyloinian clay tablet inscribed in two columns on the ovberse and two on ther reverse with a mathematical recombination text apparently with problems for bricks as a common theme.
Computation Rule
Solution Procedure
Trapezoidal Cross Section
Triangular Prism
Circular Cone
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)
289-370Subject Categories
History of Religions
Specific Languages
Other Mathematics
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-44597-7_8