Masters of Math Before Pythagoras

29 Nov

“These tablets’ word problems about digging and construction, their use in teaching record keeping and calculation, and their implicit affirmation of the importance of scribes and teachers, also reveal a highly organized, bureaucratic society, an ‘ordered urban state, with god, king and scribe at its center.’” http://nyti.ms/hS5hQ6

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where I teach and research topics in philosophy of religion and the history of ideas.

Masters of Math Before Pythagoras

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