Mathematics Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds 1st Edition by Cécile Michel, Karine Chemla ISBN 9783030483883 3030483886

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ISBN 10:   3030483886

ISBN 13: 9783030483883

Author: Cécile Michel, Karine Chemla

 This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors. It compares these to mathematical texts produced in related school contexts or reflecting the pursuit of mathematics for its own sake to reveal the diversity of mathematical practices in each of these geographical areas of the ancient world. Based on case studies from various periods and political, economic and social contexts, it explores how, in each part of the world discussed, it is possible to identify and describe the different cultures of quantification and computation as well as their points of contact. The thirteen chapters draw on a wide variety of texts from ancient Near East, China, South-East Asia and medieval Europe, which are analyzed by researchers from various fields, including mathematics, history, philology, archaeology and economics. The book will appeal to historians of science, economists and institutional historians of the ancient and medieval world, and also to Assyriologists, Indologists, Sinologists and experts on medieval Europe.

Table of contents: 

1. Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds: An Introduction

2. A Comparative Study of Prices and Wages in Royal Inscriptions, Administrative Texts and Mathematical Texts in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa

3. Computation in the Arthaśāstra

4. Official Salaries and State Taxes as Seen in Qin-Han Manuscripts, with a Focus on Mathematical Texts

5. Insights into the Administration of Ancient Irrigation Systems in Third Millennium BCE Mesopotamia

6. Mathematical Computations in the Management of Public Construction Work in Mesopotamia (End of the Third and Beginning of the Second Millennium BCE)

7. The Use of Volume in the Measurement of Grain in Early Imperial China

8. The Measurement of Fields During the Pre-sargonic Period

9. Early-Dynastic Tables from Southern Mesopotamia, or the Multiple Facets of the Quantification of Surfaces

10. Computation Practices of the Assyrian Merchants During the Nineteenth Century BCE

11. Connecting a Disconnect: Can Evidence for a Scribal Education Be Found in a Professional Setting During the Old Babylonian Period?

12. Loans and Interest in Sanskrit Legal and Mathematical Texts

13. Computational Practices Around Coins and Coinage: John of Murs’ Quadripartitum Numerorum and French Money Changers’ Books

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