Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History

Tuning Procedures in Ancient Iraq

he discovery, from the 1960s until the present, of a small corpus of about twenty texts concerning strings, tuning, and performance from ancient Iraq (loosely equivalent to “Mesopotamia”) and Syria has transformed our view of the earliest stages of music history. Not only is this corpus by far the earliest recorded expression of what might be called “music theory,” but these texts also belong t...

A History of Iraq

Ancient Indian Mathematics

The aim of this article is to present a short outline of early Indian mathematics. I mean to summarize the results and contributions of Indian mathematics which were made in the period from the first civilization in Indian subcontinent to the 5 century AD when classical era of Indian mathematics began. Indus valley civilization The first use of mathematics in the Indian subcontinent was in the ...

Ancient Indian Mathematics : an overview

A major part of the body of mathematical knowledge from the Vedic period that has come down to us is from the Śulvasūtras. The Śulvasūtras are compositions aimed at providing instruction on the principles involved and procedures of construction of the vedis (altars) and agnis (fireplaces) for the performance of the yajnas, which were a key feature of the Vedic culture. The fireplaces were const...

History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education : a Saussurean Perspective

It is not only because of a certain eclecticism in mathematics education research that semiotic ideas have begun to take root there: it is also because of the dawning recognition that key areas of interest in mathematics education genuinely have a semiotic nature. For this, one need only point to research focused on meaning, communication, language, and culture (e.g., Presmeg, 1997; Ernest,1997...