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--- mathematics [2016/01/22 14:22] – [Bibliography] gombert
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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=====
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   * Robson, Eleanor. 2008. //Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History//. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
   * Thureau-Dangin, François. 1938. //Textes Mathématiques Babyloniens//. Leiden: Ex Oriente Lux.
+===== Webography =====
   * [[http://images.math.cnrs.fr/|Images des Mathématiques]]
+  * [[http://culturemath.ens.fr|CultureMath]]