Count Like an Egyptian
A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
A lively collection of fun and challenging problems in ancient Egyptian mathThe mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. In fact, it can't be understood using our current computational methods. Count Like an Egyptian provides a fun, hands-on introduction to the intuitive and often-surprising art of ancient Egyptian math. David Reimer guides you step-by-step through addition, subtraction, multiplication, and more. He even shows you how fractions and decimals may have been calculated-they technically didn't exist in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-5141-6
- EAN: 9781400851416
- Produktnummer: 17034296
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'700 KB
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David Reimer
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