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Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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This work offers a re-edition of twelve mathematical tablets from
the site of Tell Harmal, in the borders of present-day Baghdad. In
ancient times, Tell Harmal was Saduppum, a city representative of
the region of the Diyala river and of the kingdom of Esnunna, to
which it belonged for a time. These twelve tablets were originally
published in separate articles in the beginning of the 1950s and
mostly contain solved problem texts. Some of the problems deal with
abstract matters such as triangles and rectangles with no reference
to daily life, while others are stated in explicitly empirical
contexts, such as the transportation of a load of bricks, the size
of a vessel, the number of men needed to build a wall and the
acquisition of oil and lard. This new edition of the texts is the
first to group them, and takes into account all the recent
developments of the research in the history of Mesopotamian
mathematics. Its introductory chapters are directed to readers
interested in an overview of the mathematical contents of these
tablets and the language issues involved in their interpretation,
while a chapter of synthesis discusses the ways history of
mathematics has typically dealt with the mathematical evidence and
inquires how and to what degree mathematical tablets can be made
part of a picture of the larger social context. Furthermore, the
volume contributes to a geography of the Old Babylonian
mathematical practices, by evidencing that scribes at Saduppum made
use of cultural material that was locally available. The edited
texts are accompanied by translations, philological, and
mathematical commentaries.
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