Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History

by Eleanor Robson

This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069109182X
• ISBN13: 9780691091822
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"