Egypt

Mathematicians

• Ahmes (c. 1650 B.C.E.)

Resources on the web

• A page on Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics at Mathematical MacTutor's History of Mathematics archive

• Egyptololgy Resources.

Bibliography

• Chace, A. B., L. S. Bull, H. P. Manning, and R. C. Archibald, eds.
  The Rhind mathematical papyrus. 2 volumes. Mathematical Association of America, Oberlin, Ohio, 1927-1929. Includes a bibliography of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics by Archibald. Reviewed: Isis 14, 251-255.
• Gillings, Richard J. Mathematics in the time of the pharaohs. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972. Reprint: Dover, New York, 1982.
• Neugebauer, Otto. The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1951. Reviewed: Isis 43 (1952), 67-73. Reprint: Brown University Press, Providence, 1957. Second edition: Harper and Row, New York, 1962. Reprint: Dover, New York, 1969.
• Parker, Richard Anthony
  • The calendars of ancient Egypt. Univ of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1950.
  • Demotic mathematical papyri. Brown Egyptological Studies, 7. Brown University Press, Providence, 1972.
• Peet, Thomas Eric (1882-1934)
  The Rhind mathematical papyris. University Press of Liverpool, 1923. Reviewed: Isis 6 (1924), 253-257.
• Robins, Gary, and Charles Shute. The Rhind Mathematicsal Papyrus: An Ancient Egyptian Text. Dover, New York, 1990.

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