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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=neugebauer_otto |Otto E. Neugebauer]] (1899-1990), an Austro-American mathematician, chose to devote himself to the "exact sciences in Antiquity" (mathematics and astronomy) in the early stages of his career in the context of the very open and innovative mathematical school of the University of Göttingen, Germany. As soon as the early 1930, he undertook at Göttingen the systematic publication of the cuneiform mathematical texts preserved in European Museums, and finished a first book in Copenhagen, after fleeing Nazi Germany (//Mathematische Keilschrifttexte// vol. I-III, 1935-1937). He emigrated to the United States in 1939, and he completed his work in Brown University, Providence. He published with Abraham Sachs and the assistance of Albrecht Götze a second book focused on the American collections (//Mathematical Cuneiform Texts//, 1945).\\ | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=neugebauer_otto |Otto E. Neugebauer]] (1899-1990), an Austro-American mathematician, chose to devote himself to the "exact sciences in Antiquity" (mathematics and astronomy) in the early stages of his career in the context of the very open and innovative mathematical school of the University of Göttingen, Germany. As soon as the early 1930, he undertook at Göttingen the systematic publication of the cuneiform mathematical texts preserved in European Museums, and finished a first book in Copenhagen, after fleeing Nazi Germany (//Mathematische Keilschrifttexte// vol. I-III, 1935-1937). He emigrated to the United States in 1939, and he completed his work in Brown University, Providence. He published with Abraham Sachs and the assistance of Albrecht Götze a second book focused on the American collections (//Mathematical Cuneiform Texts//, 1945).\\ |
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| The most notable contributions of the subsequent generation are those of Evert Bruins, who published the mathematical texts from Susa with Marguerite Rutten (//Textes Mathématiques de Suse//, 1961) and of [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=vaiman_a._a|Aizik A. Vaiman]] who published mathematical tablets preserved in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (//Shumero-vavivonskaya matematika III-I tysyacheletiya do n.e.// = //Sumero-Babylonian Mathematics of the Third to First Millennia BCE//, 1961). In close connection with the study of mathematical texts, the contribution of Marvin A. Powell on metrology turned to be essential for the understanding of mathematical practices (//Sumerian numeration and metrology//, PhD thesis 1971, and the landmark article "Masse und Gewichte" in //Reallexikon der Assyriologie//, vol. 7, pp. 457-517, 1987-1990).\\ | The most notable contributions of the subsequent generation are those of Evert Bruins, who published the mathematical texts from Susa with Marguerite Rutten (//Textes Mathématiques de Suse//, 1961) and of [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=vaiman_a._a|Aizik A. Vaiman]] who published mathematical tablets preserved in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (//Shumero-vavivonskaya matematika III-I tysyacheletiya do n.e.// = //Sumero-Babylonian Mathematics of the Third to First Millennia BC//, 1961). In close connection with the study of mathematical texts, the contribution of Marvin A. Powell on metrology turned to be essential for the understanding of mathematical practices (//Sumerian numeration and metrology//, PhD thesis 1971, and the landmark article "Masse und Gewichte" in //Reallexikon der Assyriologie//, vol. 7, pp. 457-517, 1987-1990).\\ |
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| By the end of the 1970, Jöran Friberg revived the field of cuneiform mathematics. His elucidation of the metrologies used in proto-cuneiform texts opened new avenues of research. The role played by mathematicians in Assyriology was already illustrated by the works of Neugebauer. This role deserves to be emphasized again here, by quoting Robert K. Englund: | By the end of the 1970, Jöran Friberg revived the field of cuneiform mathematics. His elucidation of the metrologies used in proto-cuneiform texts opened new avenues of research. The role played by mathematicians in Assyriology was already illustrated by the works of Neugebauer. This role deserves to be emphasized again here, by quoting Robert K. Englund: |
