Gillings R.J. Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs

New York: Dover Publications, 1982 — 288 p. — ISBN: 0-486-24315-X.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.
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