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Lengths, Widths, Surfaces : A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin / by Jens Høyrup
(Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. ISSN:21968829)

版	1st ed. 2002.
出版者	(New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer)
出版年	2002
本文言語	英語
大きさ	XIV, 462 p. 36 illus : online resource
著者標目	*Høyrup, Jens author SpringerLink (Online service)
件　名	LCSH:Mathematics LCSH:History LCSH:Science -- History  全ての件名で検索 FREE:History of Mathematical Sciences FREE:History of Science
一般注記	I Introduction -- II A New Reading -- III Select Textual Examples -- IV Methods -- V Further “Algebraic” Texts -- VI Quasi-Algebraic Geometry -- VII Old Babylonian “Algebra”: A Global Characterization -- VIII The Historical Framework -- IX The “Finer Structure” of the Old Babylonian Corpus -- X The Origin and Transformations of Old Babylonian Algebra -- XI Repercussions and Influences -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Index of Tablets -- Index of Akkadian and Sumerian Terms and Key Phrases -- Name Index In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Høyrup proposes that the traditional interpretation must be rejected. The texts turn out to speak not of pure numbers, but of the dimensions and areas of rectangles and other measurable geometrical magnitudes, often serving as representatives of other magnitudes (prices, workdays, etc...), much as pure numbers represent concrete magnitudes in modern applied algebra. Moreover, the geometrical procedures are seen to be reasoned to the same extent as the solutions of modern equation algebra, though not built on any explicit deductive structure HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3685-4

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