Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs Dover Publications | 1982 | ISBN: 048624315X | 286 pages | PDF | 19,7 MB
In this carefully researched study, the author examines Egyptian mathematics, demonstrating that although operations were limited in number, they were remarkably adaptable to a great many applications—solution of problems in direct and inverse proportion, linear equations of the first degree, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions.