Mathematics and Calculation in Antiquity (letter to a Cambridge Scholar)

Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:56:04 +0000
To: .............cam.ac.uk
From: thomas yaeger 
Subject: Mathematics and Calculation in Antiquity


Dear........,
 

Im supplying here the address of an article which may be of interest to you, since a) you are interested in early examples of sophisticated human cognition, and also b) in examples of ideas, languages and cultures being transmitted east to west in deep antiquity. This article addresses both of these areas.

The article took seven years...