The Making of a Scribe Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Middeke-Conlin, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XXII, 487 p. 135 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:	1st ed. 2020.
Series:	Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 4
Subjects:	Science > History. Mathematics. History. Mathematics > Study and teaching . Measurement. Measuring instruments. History of Science. History of Mathematical Sciences. Mathematics Education. Measurement Science and Instrumentation.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35951-5
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1.Introduction
Chapter 2. The early scribal education
Chapter 3. Text types and archival practices in the kingdom of Larsa
Chapter 4. Archives, bureaus and management systems of the kingdom of Larsa
Chapter 5. Metrology and sexagesimal place value notation in economic texts
Chapter 6. Errors, mistakes and evidence for a counting device
Chapter 7. Observation and the limits of numeracy. Chapter 8. Multiplication and estimation
Chapter 9. Rounding in mathematical and economic texts
Chapter 10. Conclusion: On errors, rounding and education in the kingdom of Larsa.

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