http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-17/world/old.babylonian.math_1_ancient-world-ancient-city-nippur?_s=PM:WORLD
Not Egypt but I'm interested in the knowledge of geometry in the ancient world - definitely relevant to pyramid building. (This isn't becoming maths blog - just chance there have been two recent articles.)
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Not Egypt but I'm interested in the knowledge of geometry in the ancient world - definitely relevant to pyramid building. (This isn't becoming maths blog - just chance there have been two recent articles.)
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You may find some info here:
http://mathcs.slu.edu/history-of-math/index.php/History_of_Mathematics
It's not very polished, but I have tried to collect some info while teaching a history of math course.
Anneke (From Egyptian Dreams)
Wonderful, thank you
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