Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783031452253)

Robert is an historian of knowledge and assyriologist whose work concentrates on knowledge production, acquisition, and change in the ancient world. Robert has won numerous research grants, including a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, visiting postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge, as well as a postdoctoral grant to work at Yale University's Babylonian Collection. His Ph.D. work was carried out in the SPHERE Laboratory at the University of Paris (formerly the University of Paris Diderot) with a pre-doctoral fellowship from the European Union's Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World project. His book, "The Making of a Scribe: Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa," examines numeracy and mathematical education in an ancient kingdom.