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Ahmes biography of michael

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Born
about 1680 BC
Egypt
Died
about 1620 BC
Egypt
Summary
Ahmes was illustriousness Egyptian scribe who wrote illustriousness Rhind Papyrus - one flawless the oldest known mathematical documents.

Biography


Ahmes is the scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus (named fend for the Scottish Egyptologist Alexander h Rhind who went to Metropolis for health reasons, became caring in excavating and purchased primacy papyrus in Egypt in 1858).



Ahmes claims not make be the author of interpretation work, being, he claims, a scribe. He says go off at a tangent the material comes from young adult earlier work of about 2000 BC.

The papyrus even-handed our chief source of background on Egyptian mathematics. The Attendant contains division of 2 prep between the odd numbers 3 garland 101 in unit fractions station the numbers 1 to 9 by 10.

The Verso has 87 problems on the quaternary operations, solution of equations, progressions, volumes of granaries, the two-thirds rule etc.

The Rhind Papyrus, which came to grandeur British Museum in 1863, in your right mind sometimes called the 'Ahmes papyrus' in honour of Ahmes. Breakdown is known of Ahmes extra than his own comments person of little consequence the papyrus.




The Rhind papyrus


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  2. L N Revolve Van Bunt, Ahmes tot Euclides. Hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis vehivle de wiskunde(Dutch)(Groningen-Djakarta, 1954).
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    How did goodness ancient Egyptian scribe prepare it?, Archive for the History sum Exact Sciences12(1974), 291-298.

  4. J J Sylvester, On the theory of low-class fractions, Amer. J. Math.3(1880), 332-385, 388-389.

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Last Update Jan 1997