Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds
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| Outros autores: | , |
| Summary: | VI, 568 p. 162 illus., 35 illus. in color. text |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Series: | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter,
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| Acceso en liña: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48389-0 |
| Formato: | Electrónico Libro |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds: An introduction (Cécile Michel and Karine Chemla)
- Chapter 2. A Comparative Study of Prices and Wages in Royal Inscriptions, Administrative Texts and Mathematical Texts in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa (Cécile Michel, with contributions by Robert Middeke-Conlin and Christine Proust)
- Chapter 3. Computation in the Arthaśāstra (Mark McClish)
- Chapter 4. Official Salaries and State Taxes as Seen in Qin-Han Manuscripts, with a Focus on Mathematical Texts (Peng Hao)
- Chapter 5. Insights into the Administration of Ancient Irrigation Systems in Third Millennium BCE Mesopotamia (Stephanie Rost)
- Chapter 6. Mathematical Computations in the Management of Public Construction Work in Mesopotamia (End of the Third and Beginning of the Second Millennium BCE) (Martin Sauvage)
- Chapter 7. The use of volume in the measurement of grain in early imperial China (Karine Chemla and Ma Biao)
- Chapter 8. TheMeasurement of Fields During the Pre-Sargonic Period (Camille Lecompte)
- Chapter 9. Early-Dynastic Tables from Southern Mesopotamia, or the Multiple Facets of the Quantification of Surfaces (Christine Proust)
- Chapter 10. Computation Practices of the Assyrian Merchants during the Nineteenth Century BCE (Cécile Michel)
- Chapter 11. Connecting a Disconnect. Can Evidence for a Scribal Education be Found in a Professional Setting During the Old Babylonian Period? (Robert Middeke-Conlin)
- Chapter 12. Loans and Interest in Sanskrit Legal and Mathematical Texts (Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma and Takanori Kusuba)
- Chapter 13. Computational Practices Around Coins and Coinage: John of Murs’ Quadripartitum Numerorum and French Money Changers’ Books (Marc Bompaire and Matthieu Husson).