{"product_id":"cultures-of-computation-and-quantification-karine-chemla-9783030983604","title":"Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World: Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South","description":"Chapter 1. Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world: An introduction (Karine Chemla, in dialogue with Agathe Keller and Christine Proust).- Part 1: Shaping quantities and relating them to numbers.- Chapter 2. Carrying bricks and bundling reed in theory and practice (Wolfgang Heimpel).- Chapter 3. Measuring grain in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia: Form, use, and control of the bariga container in the Twenty-First Century BCE (Walther Sallaberger).- Chapter 4. Volume, brickage and capacity in old Babylonian mathematical texts from Southern Mesopotamia (Christine Proust).- Part 2: Interpreting numbers and quantities in texts.- Place value notations in the Ur III period: Marginal numbers in administrative texts (Ouyang Xiaoli and Christine Proust).- Chapter 6. The Nazbalum in old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Robert Middeke-Conlin).- Part 3. Working with operations and algorithms.- Chapter 7. Computing tools and representations of arithmetic (Baptiste Mélès).- Chapter 8. Working on and with division in early China, Third Century BCE-Seventh Century CE (Karine Chemla).- Chapter 9. Multiplying integers: On the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors (Agathe Keller and Catherine Morice-Singh).- Part 4. Different cultures of computation and quantification.- Chapter 10. Another culture of computation from 7th century China (Zhu Yiwen).- Chapter 11. The characteristics of mathematical methods in the Wu Cao Suanjing and its social background (Zou Dahai and Chen Wei).- Chapter 12. Weighing units and weights in the context of trade between upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE) (Cécile Michel).- Chapter 13. Quantification and computation in the mathematical texts of old Babylonian Diyala (Carlos Gonçalves).- Index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karine Chemla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030983609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030983604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.63d","brand":"Karine Chemla","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685754687743,"sku":"9783030983604","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_517d9669-2690-4690-868e-879681ee7fec.jpg?v=1741726677","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultures-of-computation-and-quantification-karine-chemla-9783030983604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}