Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World

Chapter 1 Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Carrying Bricks and Bundling Reed in Theory and Practice

Chapter 3 Measuring Grain in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia: Form, Use, and Control of the Bariga Container in the Twenty-First Century BCE

Chapter 4 Volume, Brickage and Capacity in Old Babylonian Mathematical Texts from Southern Mesopotamia

Chapter 5 Place-Value Notations in the Ur III Period: Marginal Numbers in Administrative Texts

Chapter 6 The Nazbalum in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia: An Absolute Number or an Administrative Tool?

Chapter 7 Computing Tools and Representations of Arithmetic

Chapter 8 Working on and with Division in Early China, Third Century BCE—Seventh Century CE

Chapter 9 Multiplying Integers: On the Diverse Practices of Medieval Sanskrit Authors

Chapter 10 Another Culture of Computation from Seventh-Century China

Chapter 11 The Characteristics of Mathematical Methods in the Wu Cao Suanjing and Its Social Background

Chapter 12 Weighing Units and Weights in the Context of Trade Between Upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE)

Chapter 13 Quantification and Computation in the Mathematical Texts of Old Babylonian Diyala