Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world : numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia / Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust, editors.

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offers case studies focused on numbers, quantities, and operation...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Chemla, Karine (Editor), Keller, Agathe (Editor), Proust, Christine (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer, 2022.
Series:	Why the sciences of the ancient world matter ; volume 6.
Subjects:	Mathematics, Ancient.