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Le régime juridique des terres et du personnel attaché à la terre dans le papyrus wilbour
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Year: 1970 Publisher: Lille : Université de Lille, faculté des lettres et sciences humaines,

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Le recueil de prophylaxie contre les agressions des animaux venimeux du Musee de Brooklyn : Papyrus Wilbour 47.218.138
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ISBN: 9783447065566 Year: 2012 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz,

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Land tenure in the Ramesside period
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ISBN: 0710302983 Year: 1989 Publisher: London : Kegan Paul International,

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Mathematics in Ancient Egypt : A Contextual History
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ISBN: 1400874300 9781400874309 9780691117133 0691117136 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Mathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC-and the earliest hints of writing and number notation-to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative documents, and other sources, Annette Imhausen surveys three thousand years of Egyptian history to present an integrated picture of theoretical mathematics in relation to the daily practices of Egyptian life and social structures.Imhausen shows that from the earliest beginnings, pharaonic civilization used numerical techniques to efficiently control and use their material resources and labor. Even during the Old Kingdom, a variety of metrological systems had already been devised. By the Middle Kingdom, procedures had been established to teach mathematical techniques to scribes in order to make them proficient administrators for their king. Imhausen looks at counterparts to the notation of zero, suggests an explanation for the evolution of unit fractions, and analyzes concepts of arithmetic techniques. She draws connections and comparisons to Mesopotamian mathematics, examines which individuals in Egyptian society held mathematical knowledge, and considers which scribes were trained in mathematical ideas and why.Of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians, Egyptologists, and all those curious about Egyptian culture, Mathematics in Ancient Egypt sheds new light on a civilization's unique mathematical evolution.

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