Contrasting aims and approaches in the study of ancient Egyptian mathematics in the 1920s
The modern academic study of ancient Egyptian mathematics emerged in the mid-nineteenth century as the decipherment of ancient texts revealed the arithmetical and geometrical notions and processes employed by the ancient Egyptians; most of what is now known stemmed from the discovery and study of th...
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Societe Mathematique de France
2022
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