Accueil / flux-evenements / The language of mathematics: the case of cuneiform texts

The language of mathematics: the case of cuneiform texts

05 avr 2017 18:30 - 20:00
Universitat de Barcelona
Facultat de Filologia
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona
FacebookTwitter

Conférence de Carlos Gonçalves (résident de l'IEA de Paris)

Présentation

Numbers, measurements and calculations were extremely common in the cuneiform culture. Besides their presence in the so-called strictly mathematical texts, numbers, measurements and calculations were also constitutive of texts of loan contracts, real state transactions and tribute collection, to mention only these examples. In this talk, I will present some aspects of the mathematical language that characterise this rich corpus.

Les mathématiques dans les pratiques administratives et économiques dans la Mésopotamie ancienne
01 octobre 2016 - 30 juin 2017
6072
05 Avr 2017 20:00
Carlos Gonçalves
Non
9481
Conférences, interventions et entretiens
Barcelone
Antiquité (3500 av. N.E.-476)
Afrique du Nord, Proche et Moyen-Orient
Archéologie