Jöran Friberg's Home Page: Studies in History of Babylonian Mathematics
PUBLICATIONS
1. The Early Roots of Babylonian Mathematics 1, A method for the decipherment of proto-Sumerian and proto-Elamite semi-pictographic inscriptions. Department of Mathematics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola-Göteborgs Universitet 1978-9, 1-56.
2. The Early Roots of Babylonian Mathematics 2, Metrological relations in a group of semi-pictographic tablets of the Jemdet-Nasr type. Department of Mathematics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola-Göteborgs Universitet 1979-15, 1-80.
3. Methods and traditions of Babylonian mathematics, 1. Plimpton 322, Pythagorean triples, and the Babylonian triangle parameter equations. Historia Mathematica 8 (1981) 277-318.
4. Methods and traditions of Babylonian mathematics, 2. An Old Babylonian catalogue text with equations for squares and circles. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 33 (1981) 57-64.
5. A Survey of Publications on Sumero-Akkadian Mathematics, Metrology, and Related Matters (1854–1982). Department of Mathematics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola-Göteborgs Universitet 1982-17.
6. Numbers and measures in the earliest written records. Scientific American 250 (1984) 110–118. Reprinted in Scientific American: The Origins of Technology (1977) 28-35.
7. Babylonian Mathematics. In J. W. Dauben (ed.), The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present. A Selective Bibliography. New York (1985) 37-51.
8. The Early Roots of Babylonian Mathematics 3, Three remarkable texts from ancient Ebla. Vicino Oriente 6 (1986) 3–25.
9. On the big 6-place tables of reciprocals and squares from Seleucid Babylon and Uruk. Sumer 42 (1986) 81-87.
10. Mathematik. (In English.) In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 7. Berlin & New York (1990-1993) 531-585.
11. ‘Seed and Reeds’, a metro-mathematical topic text from Late Babylonian Uruk. Baghdader Mitteilungen 21 (1990) 483-557, pl. 46-48 (with H. Hunger and F.N.H. Al-Rawi).
12. Numbers and counting in the ancient Near East. In D. N. Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 4. New York, etc.(1992) 1139-1146.
13. Traces of Babylonian influence in the Arithmetica of Diophant. Department of Mathematics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola-Göteborgs Universitet 1991-19, 1-21.
14. On the structure of cuneiform metrological table texts from the -1st millennium. Grazer Morgenländische Studien 3 (1993) 383-405.
15. Preliterate counting and accounting in the Middle East. A constructively critical review of Schmandt-Besserat’s Before Writing. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 89 (1994) 477-502.
16. Review of R. K. Englund and J.-P. Grégoire, MSVO 1, The Proto-Cuneiform Texts from Jemdet Nasr. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 84 (1994), 130-135.
17. Pyramids and cones in ancient mathematical texts. New hints of a common tradition. Proceedings of the Cultural History of Mathematics 6 (1996) 80-95
18. ‘Seed and Reeds Continued’. Another metro-mathematical topic text from Late Babylonian Uruk. Baghdader Mitteilungen 28 (1997) 251-365, pl. 45-46.
19. Round and almost round numbers in proto-literate metro-mathematical field texts. Archiv für Orientforschung 44/45 (1997/98) 1-58.
20. A Late Babylonian factorization algorithm for the computation of reciprocals of many-place sexagesimal numbers. Baghdader Mitteilungen 30 (1999) 139-161, 2 pl.
21. Proto-literate counting and accounting in the Middle East. Examples from two new volumes of proto-cuneiform texts. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 51 (1999),
22. Review of E. Robson, Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC. Archiv für Orientforschung 46/47 (1999/2000) 309-317.
23. Nachtrag. Korrigendum zum Friberg in BaM 30, 1999. Baghdader Mitteilungen 31 (2000).
24. Bricks and mud in metro-mathematical cuneiform texts. In J. Høyrup and P. Damerow (eds.), Changing Views on Ancient Near Eastern Mathematics. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2000) 61-154
25. The history of Mesopotamian mathematics. In Joseph W. Dauben (ed.), The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to Present. A Selective Annotated Bibliography. Revised edition on CD-ROM. American Mathematical Society (2000) 128-152
26. Mathematics at Ur in the Early Old Babylonian period. Revue d’assyriologie 94 (2002) 1-60.
27. I primi sistemi di notazione numerica. In S. Petruccioli (ed.), Storia della scienza, 1. Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (2001) 320-326.
28. La matematica. In S. Petruccioli (ed.), Storia della scienza, 1. Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (2001) 388-408.
29. Matematiska kilskriftstexter i den norska Schøyensamlingen. Normat (Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift) 4 (2004), 145-159.
30. Nos. 72-77. The learned tradition: Mathematical texts. In I. Spar and W. G. Lambert (eds.), Cuneiform Texts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2. New York, NY (2005) 288-314.
31. Unexpected Links between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics. Singapore, etc.: World Scientific (2005).
32. On the alleged counting with sexagesimal place value numbers in mathematical cuneiform texts from the third millennium B.C. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Journal (2005). http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2005/cdlj2005_002.html.
33. A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, New York: Springer(2007).
34. Amazing Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics, Singapore, etc.: WorldScientific (2007).
35. A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, October 2008, Volume 55:9, 1076-1086.
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