Cultures of computation and quantifi...
Chemla, Karine.

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  • Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world = numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    正題名/作者: Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world/ edited by Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust.
    其他題名: numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia /
    其他作者: Chemla, Karine.
    出版者: Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2022.,
    面頁冊數: x, 765 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
    內容註: Chapter 1. Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world: An introduction (Karine Chemla, in dialogue with Agathe Keller and Christine Proust) -- Part 1: Shaping quantities and relating them to numbers -- Chapter 2. Carrying bricks and bundling reed in theory and practice (Wolfgang Heimpel) -- Chapter 3. Measuring grain in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia: Form, use, and control of the bariga container in the Twenty-First Century BCE (Walther Sallaberger) -- Chapter 4. Volume, brickage and capacity in old Babylonian mathematical texts from Southern Mesopotamia (Christine Proust) -- Part 2: Interpreting numbers and quantities in texts -- Place value notations in the Ur III period: Marginal numbers in administrative texts (Ouyang Xiaoli and Christine Proust) -- Chapter 6. The Nazbalum in old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Robert Middeke-Conlin) -- Part 3. Working with operations and algorithms -- Chapter 7. Computing tools and representations of arithmetic (Baptiste Mélès) -- Chapter 8. Working on and with division in early China, Third Century BCE-Seventh Century CE (Karine Chemla) -- Chapter 9. Multiplying integers: On the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors (Agathe Keller and Catherine Morice-Singh) -- Part 4. Different cultures of computation and quantification -- Chapter 10. Another culture of computation from 7th century China (Zhu Yiwen) -- Chapter 11. The characteristics of mathematical methods in the Wu Cao Suanjing and its social background (Zou Dahai and Chen Wei) -- Chapter 12. Weighing units and weights in the context of trade between upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE) (Cécile Michel) -- Chapter 13. Quantification and computation in the mathematical texts of old Babylonian Diyala (Carlos Gonçalves) -- Index.
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    標題: Mathematics, Ancient. -
    電子資源: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1
    ISBN: 9783030983611
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