References for Egyptian mathematics

  1. A Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (1964).
  2. E M Bruins, Egyptian arithmetic, Janus 68 (1-3) (1981), 33-52.
  3. A B Chace, L S Bull, H P Manning and R C Archibald, The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (Oberlin, Ohio, 1927-29).
  4. P Gerdes, Three alternate methods of obtaining the ancient Egyptian formula for the area of a circle, Historia Mathematica 12 (3) (1985), 261-268.
  5. R J Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs (Cambridge, MA., 1982).
  6. R J Gillings, The Recto of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus and the Egyptian mathematical leather roll, Historia Mathematica 6 (4) (1979), 442-447.
  7. R J Gillings, The Egyptian 2/3 table for fractions : The Rhind mathematical papyrus (B.M. 10057-8), Austral. J. Sci. 22 (1959), 247-250.
  8. C S Rees, Egyptian fractions, Math. Chronicle 10 (1-2) (1981), 13-30.
  9. C S Roero, Egyptian mathematics, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (London, 1994), 30-45.
  10. A J Sachs, Babylonian mathematical texts. I : Reciprocals of regular sexagesimal numbers, J. Cuneiform Studies 1 (1947), 219-240.
  11. G Sarton, Remarks on the study of Babylonian mathematics, Isis 31 (1940), 398-404.
  12. G J Toomer, Mathematics and Astronomy, in J R Harris (ed.), The Legacy of Egypt (Oxford, 1971), 27-54.
  13. T Viola, On the list of Pythagorean triples ("Plimpton 322") and on a possible use of it in old Babylonian mathematics (Italian), Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 1 (2) (1981), 103-132.
  14. B L van der Waerden, Science Awakening (Groningen, 1954).
  15. B L van der Waerden, Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations (New York, 1983).
  16. I Yaglom, Number systems : Mayans, Romans, Babylonians - lend us your calculators, Quantum 5 (6) (1995), 23-27.

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