Ancient Babylonian

Origins of counting and writing (3-5)
 
 
 
Tourist Attractions
Hanging Gardens (2)

Mathematics (9)
Overiew (1)
Numerals (6)
Logarithms
Pythagorean theorem (7)
Zero (8)

Notes

1. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "An Overview of Babylonian Mathematics," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13).

2. "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon," http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html (Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of South Florida, 2004 Jan 21, accessed 2004 Sep 3).

3. Denise Schmandt-Besserat, The History of Counting (Harper Collins, 1999 Aug 25).

4. Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How Writing Came About [Abridged] (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997).

5. Ivars Peterson, "From Counting to Writing," http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc97/2_22_97/mathland.htm (Science News Online, 1997 Feb 22, accessed 2004 Sep 3). This is a summary of How Writing Came About (4).

6. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "Babylonian Numerals," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13).

7. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "Pythagoras's Theorem in Babylonian Mathematics," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Babylonian_Pythagoras.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13).

8. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "A History of Zero," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Zero.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13).

9. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "History Topics: Babylonian mathematics," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Indexes/Babylonians.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13).

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