Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian mathematics

We describe two letters of 1926 from the historian of mathematics Otto Neugebauer to the Egyptologist Thomas Eric Peet (Griffith Institute Archive, Oxford: Peet MSS 4.9). The letters concern Neugebauer's study of certain parts of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, as found in the doctoral disserta...

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Main Authors: Hollings, CD, Parkinson, RB
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020