Eleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at UCL. She is equally interested in the social and political history of the cuneiform cultures of ancient Iraq, 5000–2000 years ago and the construction of knowledge about ancient Iraq in over the past two centuries. Her Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (2008) won the History of Science Society’s Pfizer Prize in 2011. With UK and Iraqi colleagues she runs the AHRC/GCRF-funded Nahrein Network (2017–21), which fosters the sustainable development of history, heritage and the humanities in Iraq and its neighbours.
7 Ebook di Eleanor Robson
Jeremy Black & Graham Cunningham: Literature of Ancient Sumer
This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from n …
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€57.46
Eleanor Robson & Jacqueline Stedall: Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of wh …
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€42.24
Karen Radner & Eleanor Robson: Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world’s oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its …
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€37.20
Eleanor Robson: Ancient Knowledge Networks
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings …
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€1.49
Eleanor Robson: Mathematics in Ancient Iraq
This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual cult …
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€87.99
Victor J. Katz: The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam
In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English translations of key mathematic …
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€149.99
Eleanor Robson & Jacqueline Stedall: Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of wh …
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Inglese
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€42.22
