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History of mathematics - Early written mathematics 2000 BC - 600 BC | | History of mathematics - Early written mathematics 2000 BC - 600 BC: Encyclopedia II - History of mathematics - Early written mathematics 2000 BC - 600 BC | | The oldest mathematics text discovered so far is the Moscow papyrus, which is an Egyptian Middle Kingdom papyrus dated circa 2050 BC - 1800 BC. Like many ancient mathematical texts, it consists of what are today called "word problems" or "story problems", which were apparently intended as entertainment. One problem is considered to be of particular importance because it gives a method for finding the volume of a pyramid: "If you are told: A truncated pyramid of 6 for the vertical height by 4 on the base by 2 on the top. You are to square thi ...
See also:History of mathematics, History of mathematics - Mathematics in prehistory, History of mathematics - Early written mathematics 2000 BC - 600 BC, History of mathematics - India 800 BC - 300 BC, History of mathematics - Greece and Hellenistic mathematics 400 BC - 200 BC, History of mathematics - Arab and Persian mathematics 650 - 1200, History of mathematics - Developing the concept of number through equations, History of mathematics - Complex numbers, History of mathematics - Miscellaneous historical notes, History of mathematics - Notes | | | History of mathematics, History of mathematics - Arab and Persian mathematics 650 - 1200, History of mathematics - Complex numbers, History of mathematics - Developing the concept of number through equations, History of mathematics - Early written mathematics 2000 BC - 600 BC, History of mathematics - Greece and Hellenistic mathematics 400 BC - 200 BC, History of mathematics - India 800 BC - 300 BC, History of mathematics - Mathematics in prehistory, History of mathematics - Miscellaneous historical notes, History of mathematics - Notes | | |
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History of mathematics - Early written mathematics 2000 BC - 600 BC
The oldest mathematics text discovered so far is the Moscow papyrus, which is an Egyptian Middle Kingdom papyrus dated circa 2050 BC - 1800 BC. Like many ancient mathematical texts, it consists of what are today called "word problems" or "story problems", which were apparently intended as entertainment. One problem is considered to be of particular importance because it gives a method for finding the volume of a pyramid: "If you are told: A truncated pyramid of 6 for the vertical height by 4 on the base by 2 on the top. You are to square this 4, result 16. You are to double 4, result 8. You are to square 2, result 4. You are to add the 16, the 8, and the 4, result 28. You are to take one third of 6, result 2. Your are to take 28 twice, result 56. See, it is 56. You will find it right."
The Rhind papyrus (circa 1650 BC) is another major Egyptian mathematical text, an instruction manual in arithmetic and geometry. It gives area formulas and methods for multiplication and division and for working with unit fractions.
In Mesopotamia, more than 400 mathematics texts have been discovered, inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets. Some of these appear to be graded homework. The tablets include multiplication tables, trigonometry tables, and methods for solving linear and quadratic equations. The tablet Plimpton 322 contains numbers that seem to have been used to calculate Pythagorean triples.
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