TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillings,Richard J.
TI  - Mathematics in the time of the pharaohs
SN  - 048624315X (pbk.)
AV  - QA 27 G481m 1982
U1  - 510/.932 
PY  - 1982///, c1972
CY  - New York
PB  - Dover
KW  - Mathematics, Egyptian
KW  - Matematica (historia)
KW  - larpcal
KW  - Historia de las matemáticas
KW  - Egipto
N1  - Ed. orig.: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT press, 1972; Includes bibliographical references ([267]-275) and index
N2  - In this carefully researched study, the author examines Egyptian mathematics, demonstrating that although operations were limited in number, they were remarkably adaptable to a great many applications�b7�ssolution of problems in direct and inverse proportion, linear equations of the first degree, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions
ER  -