Examines ancient numeral systems, Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics, Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and ...

This is one of very few books to deal extensively with the mathematics of Late Antiquity. It sees Pappus' text as part of a wider context and relates it to other contemporary cultural practices and ...

Rossi, Corinna and Fiorillo, Fausta 2018. A Metrological Study of the Late Roman Fort of Umm al-Dabadib, Kharga Oasis (Egypt). Nexus Network Journal, Vol. 20, Issue. 2, p. 373.

Eleanor Robson again: "It's quite difficult to tell exactly how representative Egyptian mathematics is in the early second millennium BC. The only evidence we've got to compare it with at the same ...