Amazing Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics
Jöran Friberg
A discussion of the ways in which Greek commentators in the (late) antiquity tried to explain the origin of Greek mathematics, as well as a historical survey of early cultural contacts between the Greeks and the Near East can be found in, for instance, van der Waerden, Science Awakening 1 (1975 (1954)), 83 ff.
In the present book, a sequel to the author's Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics, Singapore:
World Scientific
(2005), Greek and Babylonian mathematical texts will be allowed to speak for themselves.
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