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SYMBOL, FORM AND NUMBER IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Lebombo bone, Ishango bone, Egyptian method of calculating the circle.
A Vision of Early Egypt.
The Primeval Goddess; How she created the world;
The origin of the River Nile.
The angry goddess and her helpful daughters.
Hill sanctuaries, a rite of creation.
The Followers of Horus, a long war, a good king and his queen.
Unification of Egypt.
King Narmer, holding a speech-Pyramid program of the Old Kingdom.
Harbor of the heavenly kha-channel (Sneferu's pyramids).
Hemon's masterpiece (Great Pyramid).
Long before Archimedes (calculating pi).
Evidence in the Great Pyramid
How was the Great Pyramid built?
Chamber shafts, statues, a hidden chamber.
Horus cubits, gallery, sun barks.
King's Chamber and sarcophagus
Isis and Osiris.
Life symbol Ankh

Book: African Invention of Mathematics, Egyptian Way of Calculating the Circle
Book: Symbol, Form and Number in Ancient Egypt



Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

Peri Aigypton Hai Matheamatikai Proton Technai Synestaesan (Aristotle, metaphysics, book 1, chapter 1).
Correct Method of Reckonig, for Grasping the Meaning of Things and Knowing Everything that is, Obscurities ... and all Secrets (Ahmes, begin of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, translated by Robins & Shute).
How long are the diagonals of a square?
Cube and equilateral triangle.
Double square.
Doubling the volume of a cube.
Calculating the circle.
Cumbersome? No, a clever tool.
Multiplying unit fraction series.
A calculation of interest.
Playing with beans.
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, duplations and conversions.
Down under algebra.
A short way to pi.
Duplations and right parallelepipeds.
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, problems no. 7-38.

Book: Rhind Mathematical Papyrus



46 Lessons in Early Geometry

Book: 46 Lessons in Early Geometry



Early China

River Map Ho-T'u and Magic Square Lo-Shu

Book: Early China