Babylonia
Mathematicians
- Nabu-rimanni (c. 490)
- Kidinu (c. 480)
About the Plimpton 322 tablet.
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Bibliography
- Chiera, Edward (1885-1933)
They wrote on clay: the Babylonian tablets speak today.
Univ. of Chicago Pr., Chicago, 1938.
- Hoyrup, Jens.
Babylonian algebra from the view-point of geometrical heuristics:
investigation of terminology, methods, and patterns of thought.
Roskilde University Centre, Roskilde, Denmark, 1984.
- Neugebauer, Otto.
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1951.
Reviewed: Isis 43 (1952), 67-73.
Reprint: Brown University Press, Providence, 1957.
Second edition: Harper and Row, New York, 1962.
Reprint: Dover, New York, 1969.
- Neugebauer, Otto, and A. J. Sachs, eds.
Mathematical cuneform texts.
American Oriental Series, vol. 29. American Oriental Society, New
Haven, 1946. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1955. Reprint: Sources in the History of
Mathematics and the Physical Sciences 5, Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin, 1983.
Reviewed: MR 84c:01005.
- Thureau-Dangin, François.
Textes mathématiques babyloniens. 1938.
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