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THIS edition of the Moscow papyrus (complete with plates giving photographs of the whole of the text and a hieroglyphic transcription) has been eagerly awaited by Egyptologists and historians of mathematics alike. The volume is finely produced, and we can only congratulate the author upon the result of some three years' intensive study of the papyrus and all the literature of the subject of Egyptian mathematics. Egyptologists will in due course have much to say upon it; the present notice will deal with it from the point of view of the mathematician only.
Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau.
Herausgegeben und kommentiert von W. W. Struve. Unter Benutzung einer hieroglyphischen Transkription von B. A. Turajeff. (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Abteilung A: Quellen.) Pp. xii + 198 + 10 Tafeln. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930.) 48.80 gold marks.
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H., T. Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau . Nature 127, 583–585 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127583a0
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