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--- mathematics [2015/10/29 16:16] – lafont
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 ====== Cuneiform Mathematics ======
 When, in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, the assyriologist François Thureau-Dangin and, after him, the mathematician Otto Neugebauer undertook the systematic publication of cuneiform mathematical texts preserved in European and American museums, the scientific community discovered that highly sophisticated mathematical methods were developed in Mesopotamia more than one millennium before Euclid and Pythagoras.\\
-The pages on mathematics of the cdli:wiki offers a brief general overview of the known mathematical cuneiform sources and a selected bibliography. Several more focused articles develop further some of the most important aspects of the mathematical traditions that have emerged in the Ancient Near East from the mi-third millennium to the end of the first millennium BCE.
+The pages on mathematics of the cdli:wiki offers a brief general overview of the known mathematical cuneiform sources and a selected bibliography. Several more focused articles develop further some of the most important aspects of the mathematical traditions that have emerged in the Ancient Near East from the mi-third millennium to the end of the first millennium BC.
 =====Articles=====
-  * [[General overview]]
+    * [[General overview]]
-     * Transversal articles
+**Transversal articles**
+    * [[The Sexagesimal Place Value Notation]]
+    * [[Historiography of cuneiform mathematics]]
+    * [[Reasoning]]
+    * [[Transmissions]]
-[[The Sexagesimal Place Value Notation]]
+**3<sup>rd</sup> millennium**
+    * [[Early Dynastic mathematical texts]]
+    * [[Mathematics in the Ur III period]]
-[[Historiography of cuneiform mathematics]]
+**2<sup>nd</sup> millennium**
+    * [[Learning mathematics in Old Babylonian scribal schools]]
+    * [[Old Babylonian mathematical traditions]]
-[[Reasoning]]
+**1<sup>st</sup> millennium**
+    * [[Mathematical texts of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods]]
-[[Transmissions]]
-  *   3<sup>rd</sup> millennium
-[[Early Dynastic mathematical texts]]
-[[Mathematics in the Ur III period]]
-  *   2<sup>nd</sup> millennium
-[[Learning mathematics in Old Babylonian scribal schools]]
-[[Old Babylonian mathematical traditions]]
-  *   1<sup>st</sup> millennium
-[[Mathematical texts of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods]]
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 ===== Bibliography =====
-A tentative complete bibliography by Duncan Melville is available [[http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/biblio/bigbib.html|here]].
+A tentative complete bibliography by Duncan Melville is available [[http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/biblio/bigbib.html|here]].\\
-\\ A basic tool indispensable for any people interested by the subject is Friberg's commented bibliography, alas unpublished, //A Survey of Publications on Sumero-Akkadian Mathematics, Metrology and Related Matters (1854-1982)//, Göteborg 1982.
+A basic tool indispensable for any people interested by the subject is Friberg's commented bibliography, alas unpublished, //A Survey of Publications on Sumero-Akkadian Mathematics, Metrology and Related Matters (1854-1982)//, Göteborg 1982.\\
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   * Bruins, Evert M. and Marguerite Rutten. 1961. //Textes mathématiques de Suse//. Paris: Geuthner.
   * Damerow, Peter (2001) "Kannten die Babylonier den Satz des Pythagoras? Epistemologische Anmerkungen zur Natur der babylonischen Mathematik" in Changing Views on Ancient Near Eastern Mathematics (Jens Høyrup and Peter Damerow, eds.), Berlin: 219-310.
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+===== Webography =====
+  * [[http://images.math.cnrs.fr/|Images des Mathématiques]]
+  * [[http://culturemath.ens.fr|CultureMath]]