SOCRATES IN BABYLON

Socrates never visited Babylon. He probably did not even know that in the Old Babylonian period about 1,000 years before his birth Babylonian scribes produced texts that about 2,000 years after his death would be known, using a seemingly genuine Greek term, as Babylonian mathematics. The focus of t...

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Main Author: Peter Damerow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de História da Matemáticas (SBHMat) 2020-11-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática
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Online Access:https://www.rbhm.org.br/index.php/RBHM/article/view/318

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