Science, Maths & Technology
Babylonian mathematics
...money according to certain rules and the division of a field of given size into, say, parts of equal area. O. Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity pp. 44–5. The Babylonian problem-solving skills, as we infer them from the problem texts, were remarkable. The Babylonian scribe, for example, received a training in these matters far in advance of anyone in medieval...