A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) - Image 1

£66.35

Springer A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

Name: A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schoyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)
Brand: Springer
Price: 66.35 GBP
Availability: InStock

NUSTBK20171230-C0040272

History of Mathematics

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£66 today · previous high £66 · all-time low £60

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 55 days · 55 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 55 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £60 (19 days, 34.5%)

Price range: £60 - £66

Price levels: 4 different prices over 55 days

Description

The sub-collection of mathematical cuneiform texts in the Schøyen Collection makes a substantial addition to the known corpus of such texts. It contains 121 texts, not counting 151 multiplication tables and 53 small weight stones. According to the catalog at the end of the Index of Subjects below, where those 121 mathematical texts are ordered by content, nearly all known kinds, and some new kinds, of mathematical cun- form texts are represented in the collection. Therefore it has been possible to organize the present work as a broad general account of Mesopotamian mathematics, illustrated mainly by texts from the Schøyen Collection, but occasionally also by previously published texts. The general disposition of the book is borrowed from my own concise but comprehensive survey of Mesopotamian mathematics in the article on “Mathematics” in Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 7 (1990). My ambition has been to make the account easily accessible to all kinds of readers, yet still as detailed and exhaustive as possible. For that purpose, there is, for instance, an introductory Chapter 0 on “how to get a b- ter understanding of mathematical cuneiform texts”. The chapter begins with a discussion of the danger of unintentional anachronisms in translations of pre-Greek mathematical texts, and continues with a presentation of the kind of “conform” transliterations, translations, and interpretations, true to the original, that will be used throughout the book in discussions of individual texts.

Product Specifications

Brand: Springer
Model: NUSTBK20171230-C0040272
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0387345434
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Mathematics > History of Mathematics
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 July 2007
Listed Since: 31 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Springer A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World: Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South ... the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 6)

The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts: Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg: 13 (Ancient Magic and Divination, 13)

Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History

Writing Neo-Assyrian History: Sources, Problems, and Approaches: 29 (State Archives of Assyria Studies)

New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom (Mesopotamian Civilizations)

Springer - New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts - Joran Friberg

From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters

Tablets from the Iri-Sagrig Archive (CUSAS): 40 (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters

Unexpected Links Between Egyptian And Babylonian Mathematics

Oxford University Press - A Babylon Calendar Treatise Book

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe: Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period

Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook

Mésopotamie - De Gilgamesh à Artaban (3000 - 120 av. J.-C.)

Études Mésopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies N°3 – 2023: L’empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancien : Volume d’hommage offert à Francis Joannès

A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts (Third, Revised and Expanded Edition) (AIDS and Research Tools in Ancient Near Eastern Studies): 5

As Above, So Below: Religion and Geography (Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale)

The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721705 BC): 2 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period)

Fragmente Einer Grossen Sprache (Untersuchungen Zur Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archao): 12

Sargonic and Gutian Periods (2234-2113 BC): 2 (RIM The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia)

Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts): XIV

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia: Mesopotamian Civilizations

Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria: Volume II: Plates of Room Contents: 28.2 (Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities)