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	Time: 9 hours Level: Intermediate

	Introduction Introduction Resource For many centuries, ancient Egypt was seen as the source of wisdom and knowledge, about mathematics as well as other things. There was a long classical Greek tradition to this effect, and in later centuries...

	Egyptian mathematics 1 Mathematics in Egyptian history Resource Only a small number of the surviving Egyptian papyri are concerned with mathematical calculations – perhaps a dozen or so in all, of which the earliest dates from about 1850 BC and the most recent from... 2 Egyptian calculation Resource The earliest Egyptian script was hieroglyphic, used from before 3000 BC until the early centuries AD. Initially an all-purpose script, it was eventually used only for monumental stone-carving and formal... 3 More information about the Rhind papyrus Resource Arnold Buffum Chace on Egyptian mathematics as pure science

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