Titlebook: Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds; Cécile Michel,Karine Chemla Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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Computation Practices of the Assyrian Merchants During the Nineteenth Century BCE systematic analysis of the data given by the Assyrians when purchasing metals and the results they obtained gives clues about the computation methods they might have been using. These appear to be very different from those utilized by contemporaneous Babylonian administrators.

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Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds: An Introduction,ws on the various chapters in the book to illustrate the benefits that can be derived from this program. The overall goal is to provide a better understanding of the role mathematical knowledge and practices played in allowing various types of practitioners to carry out managerial and economic activ

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Official Salaries and State Taxes as Seen in Qin-Han Manuscripts, with a Focus on Mathematical Textsese manuscripts were unearthed during regular archeological excavations or bought on the antiquities market. The author shows how the legal manuscripts display the way in which measurement and number were essential for the social and economic organization of the early Chinese empire, as well as for

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Amnesty

Mathematical Computations in the Management of Public Construction Work in Mesopotamia (End of the Tlso to try to determine how far these calculation methods were actually used in practice. In order to do this we examine mathematical and administrative texts dealing with construction activities as well as archaeological and ethnographical data. Two types of texts provide the information on mathema

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The Use of Volume in the Measurement of Grain in Early Imperial Chinaexplain why for the same thing, practitioners used two types of units that appear to us as equivalent. To begin with, we establish that volumes were magnitudes expressed with measurement units wholly different from capacities. In fact, there were no specific units devoted to the expression of volume

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The Measurement of Fields During the Pre-sargonic Period (length, width and area of several plots) and show implicitly the land surveyor’s method to calculate the area of agricultural estates belonging to central institutions. The present paper investigates the mathematic procedures in use for land surveys, fields being either measured as rectangles, squ