THE subject-matter of this work has at different times been brought under the notice of the readers of NATURE, for it is very little more than a collected and corrected reproduction of papers which ...
Mathematics in Mesopotamia : Where did mathematics begin? ; Political history in Mesopotamia ; The number symbols ; Arithmetic operations ; Babylonian algebra ; Babylonian geometry ; The uses of ...
IN NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 291, we briefly referred to the first part of Dr. Allman's work, which gave an account of the earlier geometers, more especially treating of the labours of Thales and ...