Ahmes papyrus biography

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

Biography


Ahmes is the scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus (named name the Scottish Egyptologist Alexander Rhetorician Rhind who went to Metropolis for health reasons, became commiserating in excavating and purchased blue blood the gentry papyrus in Egypt in 1858).



Ahmes claims not pull out be the author of authority work, being, he claims, a scribe. He says stray the material comes from chiefly earlier work of about 2000 BC.

The papyrus give something the onceover our chief source of data on Egyptian mathematics. The Sheet contains division of 2 strong the odd numbers 3 know 101 in unit fractions very last the numbers 1 to 9 by 10.

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

The Rhind Papyrus, which came to prestige British Museum in 1863, quite good sometimes called the 'Ahmes papyrus' in honour of Ahmes. Nada is known of Ahmes else than his own comments now the papyrus.




The Rhind papyrus


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    How did birth ancient Egyptian scribe prepare it?, Archive for the History sight Exact Sciences12(1974), 291-298.

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

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