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RECORD NUMBER: 3 OF 19| Main Title | Math of Babylon / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Swienciki, Lawrence W. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Key Curriculum Press ; [Spectrum Educational Supplies, distributor], | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2001 | |||||||||||
| Stock Number | 203472 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 613472257 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Multicultural education--Study and teaching--Posters ; Mathematics--History--Study and teaching--Posters ; Mathematics, Ancient--Study and teaching--Iraq--Babylon (Extinct city)--Posters ; Mathematics, Babylonian--Study and teaching--Posters ; Babylon (Extinct city)--History--Study and teaching--Posters ; Mathematics--Study and teaching ; Study skills | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 1 poster : color ; 62 x 93 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | "Design and text by Lawrence Swienciki, PhD."--Poster. Title from poster. |
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| Contents Notes | The poster's central panel depicts a Babylonian king and queen playing Ur on a terrace of the Hanging Gardens, with a ziggurat ("Tower of Babel") looming in the background. Columns on outer left and right show cuneiform elements, and their application in Babylonian digits, other numerals and alternate values, plus three examples of problems in algebraic systems, quadratic equations and number theory. The text box at the bottom outlines the development and use of mathematics in the Old Babylonian period (2000-1600 B.C.) and Seleucid period (c. 300 B.C.), describes their base 60 (sexagesimal) system and notation, and explains in detail the solutions to the problems shown in the columns. |