The Mathematics of Ancient Mesopotamia
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1 The Mathematics of Ancient Mesopotamia
2 Background Mesopotamia: Greek between the rivers, specifically the Tigris and Euphrates. This area occupies most of what is present-day Iraq, and parts of Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iran.
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5 Background Thought to be the (or at least a) cradle of civilization. Delta region extremely fertile The Fertile Crescent Semi-arid climate required extensive irrigation projects
6 Four Empires Four civilizations flourished here, from 3100 BCE to 539 BCE. These included the early Sumerian ( BCE) and Akkadian ( BCE) empires, and the later Old Babylonian ( BCE) and Assyrian ( BCE; Ashurbanipal) empires. There followed a brief Neo-Babylonian period from BCE. Then Persia. Then Alexander the Great. Then.
7 Some names you might Hammurabi, founder of the Old Babylonian Empire Code of Hammurabi laws, lex talionus, an eye for an eye If anyone strikes the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public. recognize
8 Some names you might recognize The Epic of Gilgamesh Poem relates story of Gilgamesh, ruler of Uruk, who seeks out survivor of great flood in quest of immortality. Ur of the Chaldees, Birthplace of Abraham. King Nebuchadnezzar (Neo- Babylonian Empire)
9 Sources Most of what we know about Mesompotamian mathematics comes from several hundred clay tablets belonging to the Old Babylonian kingdom, around roughly BCE. Tablets are of two kinds: Table texts Problem texts
10 But Before We Go There We need to understand a little about the number system used in that Old Babylonian era. How it works and how it evolved is an interesting story in itself.
11 Babylonian Number System A base-60 positional system with individual numbers formed by two different wedge-shaped marks: a horizontal wedge worth 10 and a vertical wedge worth 1. Numbers less than 60 were written using these two symbols in a purely additive fashion.
12 Babylonian Number System
13 Notational Aside: Notice that the marks from the previous table don t look exactly like the and the that I used a while ago. They look even less like the marks I ll end up using from here on because they are easier: and. There is considerable variation in both the original texts and the modern interpretations.
14 Babylonian Number System These 59 symbols would be written in a place value system based on powers of 60. Powers of 60 increased from right to left, just as powers of 10 increase from right to left in our system.
15 Babylonian Number System
16 The First of Two Problems:
17 The Second of Two Problems:
18 Resolution of Problems These two problems were usually quite easily resolved by the context of the arithmetic being done, so it bothers us much more than it did the Babylonians. Also, there were very frequently units attached. For example, any ambiguity in writing 1 1 is resolved if we say $1 1.
19 Resolution of Problems In about 300 BC there was a placeholder symbol invented and used, but only between symbols, never at the end. In our notation, 604 but never 640 or 6400.
20 Our Babylonian Notation We will use a comma to separate place values, use a 0 when we need it, and use a semicolon as a sexagecimal point. Thus,
21 But Why 60? Why? Why? Some suggested reasons: Lots of non-repeating sexagecimals, since 60 as more divisors than 10 (btw, how do you tell if one of our fractions will terminate or repeat when converted to a decimal?). Sacred or Mystical numbers Combination of two number cultures.
22 Why 60? Well, actually, we aren t sure. But we ll talk about one suggested solution. According to Peter Rudman in his book How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years, it s probably more like 6 s and 10 s than 60.
23 Example: 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧٧ ٧٧٧٧ ٧
24 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧
25 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧
26 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧٧٧٧ ٧
27 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧٧٧٧ ٧
28 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧٧ ٧٧٧٧ ٧
29 60x /60 (carrying row) ٧ ٧ (1st number) ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧ (2nd number) + ٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧ ٧٧٧٧٧٧٧٧ (Sum) ٧٧ ٧٧٧٧ ٧
30 Alternating 10-for-1 and 6-for -1 Exchanges
31 Ok, so.. We can understand using groups of 10. But we have to ask: Why the freak are there groups of 6? Well, let s look at Ancient Sumer:
32 First, realize that these folks used different measures for different things, and that these measures had different exchanges from larger to smaller units. We did this too:
33 Weight 16 ounces = 1 pound 14 pounds = 1 stone 8 stone = 1 hundredweight 20 hundredweight = 1 ton (except for us 100 pounds = 1 hundredweight, and 20 hundredweight = 1 ton = 2000 pounds)
34 Capacity 8 (fluid) ounces = 1 cup 2 cups = 1 pint 2 pints = 1 quart 4 quarts = 1 gallon
35 Length: 12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard 22 yards = 1 chain 10 chains = 1 furlong 8 furlongs = 1 mile 3 miles = 1 league And then you have rods and links and thous....
36 Land Measures Originally, communal plots of land were laid out in rectangular plots of 1 furlong by 1 chain (660 by 66 feet), or 10 chains by 1 chain (= 1 acre). The furrows ran in the long direction, so the plots were a furrow long. So actually furlongs were an agricultural measure that were independent of feet, which was a body-part measure.
37 By the way, a cricket pitch is still 66 feet long, or 1 chain, or a tenth of a furlong.
38 Moving on. Eventually small measures based on body parts had to be reconciled with large agricultural measures like furlongs, so things were shifted and fudged in the measures so that everything was an integral multiple of everything else.
39 The Same Thing Happened in Babylon: A body-part measure called a kush, about 1 2/3 feet, was the basis for a nindan, which needed to be reconciled with two agricultural measures, the eshe and the USH. The eshe and the USH came preloaded with a 6-to-1 exchange, and the nindan and the eshe became an easy 10-to-1 exchange.
40 10-for-1 and 6-for-1 Because units of both length and area were exchanged for larger units in both groups of 10 and groups of 6, using counters that reflected those exchanges greatly facilitated calculations with lengths and areas. And the number system went along for the ride.
41 10-for-1 and 6-for-1 So units of length and area that came pre-loaded with exchanges gave rise to a system of arithmetic with alternating 10-to-1 and 6-to-1 exchanges, and then to a base 60 system. But there was real genius in moving to a place-value system. Now, back to Babylon:
42 Babylonian Tablet Texts: Table Texts Problem Texts
43 Table Texts Multiplication tables, of which about 160 are known. Single tables have the form: p a-rá 1 a-rá 2 a-rá 3 And so on, up to a-rá 30 a-rá 40 a-rá 50 p 2p 3p 20p, then: 30p 40p 50p
44 Table Texts Combined tables (of which there are about 80) have several single tables included on one tablet. One of them (A 7897) is a large cylinder containing an almost complete set of tables written in 13 columns. There is a hole through the center of the cylinder so that it could be turned on some kind of peg.
45 Table Texts Reciprocal Tables had reciprocals of numbers from 2 to 81 (provided their sexagecimal representations did not repeat. These were used to divide, which they did by multiplying by reciprocals.
46 Table Texts There are a few tables of squares, square roots, cube roots, powers. Also some conversions and a few special tables used for particular business transactions (finding market rates).
47 Table Texts It is likely that many of the table texts we have are exercises from students learning to be scribes, or perhaps tables copied and made by students for use in computations.
48 Problem Texts Also probably intended for educational purposes. Story problems aimed at computing a number. Often contrived or tricky problems. If camel A leaves Phoenicia travelling at nindan per day.... Kinda like our modern story problems or recreational math problems.
49 Problem Texts Largely algebraic problems, focusing on what we would call on linear and quadratic equations (though that s not at all how the Babylonians thought about this). Mainly focused on algorithms, but not on general procedures. Instead, they gave several worked examples.
50 A Little Arithmetic The book mentions that we don t really know how the Babylonians did arithmetic like adding and subtracting and we don t know their algorithms for multiplication and division, except that they divided by multiplying by reciprocals.
51 Division We ll do 1029 divided by 64: In our language, we multiply 1029 by 1/64, or 17, 9 by 0; 0, 56,15
52 0; 0, 56, 15 x 17, 9 2, 15 9 x 15 from table 7, 30 9 x 50 from table; shift 54 9 x 6 from table; shift 4, 15, 17 x 15 from table; shift 14, 10, 17 x 50 from table; shift 2 1, 42, 17 x 6 from table; shift 2 16; 4, 41, 15 Or in our system,
53 What About Division by 7?
54 Story Problems, 1
55 Babylon, 2000 BC Provo, 2011 AD You take 1. Two-thirds of 1 is 0;40. Half of this, 0; 20, you multiply by 0;20 and it is 0;6,40, you add to 0;35 and the result 0;41;40 has 0;50 as its square root.
56 Babylon, 2000 BC The 0;20 which you have multiplied by itself, you subtract from 0;50, and 0;30 is the side of the square. Provo, 2011 AD
57 Story Problems, 2
58 (2/3)(2/3)x+100=x First multiply two-thirds by two thirds: result 0;26,40 Subtract 0;26,40 from 1: result 0;33,20 Take the reciprocal of 0;33,20: result 1;48 Multiply 1;48 by 1,40: result 3,00. 3,00 (qa) is the original quantity.
59 Story Problems, 3 I found a stone but did not weigh it. After I weighed out 8 times its weight, added 3 gin. [Then] one-third of onethirteenth I multiplied by 21, added it and then I weighed it. Result 1 mana. What was the original weight of the stone? The weight was 4;30 gin. (1 mana = 60 gin).
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61 Some Geometry-YBC 7289
62 Error: ish 30 1; 24, 51, 10 = ; 25, 35 =
63 Babylonian Astronomy Ancient peoples of Mesopotamia could easily track the movement of the celestial sphere as it revolved around the earth every year. They could also track the movement of the sun in a wiggly path (the ecliptic) against the celestial sphere.
64 Babylonian Astronomy
65 Babylonian Astronomy
66 Babylonian Astronomy, 600 BC Early version of the Zodiac, 12 areas of 30 ush each; the sun travels 1 ush per day. So, there were 360 ush in a full circuit of the sun. The beginning of there being 360 degrees in a circle.
67 Babylonian Astronomy, 600 BC Two different descriptions of how the sun (and moon) changed speeds along their path. One was a step function (two speeds); the other had a linear change over time and was quite accurate.
68 Babylonian Astronomy, 600 BC The Babylonians divided the day into twelve intervals called "kaspu". The solar kaspu was the span of thirty degrees which the Sun travels in two hours of daily motion across Earth's sky.
69 Babylonian Astronomy, 600 BC The Babylonians also predicted certain celestial phenomena, such as eclipses and lunar periods. They began their studies with the eclipse of March 19, 721 BC. Calculations were difficult because the astronomers had no instruments of high accuracy.
70 Babylonian Astronomy, 600 BC Both the Chaldeans and Babylonian eclipse records are used in studying long-term variations in the lunar orbit in modern theories. Records of new moons, eclipses, and the rising of Venus were kept from very early times.
71 Some Astrology 2. If in Nisannu the sunrise (looks) sprinkled with blood and the light is cool: rebellion will not stop in the country, there will be devouring by Adad. 3. If in Nisannu the normal sunrise (looks) sprinkled with blood: battles
72 Some Astrology 4. If in Nisannu the normal sunrise (looks) sprinkled with blood: there will be battles in the country. 5. If on the first day of Nisannu the sunrise (looks) sprinkled with blood: grain will vanish in the country, there will be hardship and human flesh will be eaten.
73 Some Astrology 6. If on the first day of Nisannu the sunrise (looks) sprinkled with blood and the light is cool: the king will die and there will be mourning in the country. 7. If it becomes visible on the second day and the light is cool: the king's... high official will die and mourning will not stop in the country.
74 Oh Happiness! 8. If a normal disk is present and one disk stands to the right (and) one to the left: if the king treats the city and his people kindly for reconciliation and they become reconciled,
75 Oh Happiness! 8. If a normal disk is present and one disk stands to the right (and) one to the left: if the king treats the city and his people kindly for reconciliation and they become reconciled, the cities will start vying with each other, city walls will be destroyed, the people will be dispersed.
76 Constellations On the 1st of Nisannu the Hired Man becomes visible. On the 20th of Nisannu the Crook becomes visible. On the 20th of Ayyaru the Jaw of the Bull becomes visible. On the 10th of Simanu the True Shepherd of Anu and the Great Twins become visible. On the 5th of Du'uzu the Little Twins and the Crab become visible.
77 Secret Knowledge "Secret tablet of Heaven, exclusive knowledge of the great gods, not for distribution! He may teach it to the son he loves. To teach it to a scribe from Babylon or a scribe from Borsippa or any other scholar is an abomination to Nabu and Nisaba....a Babylonian or a Borsippan or any other scholar...whoever speaks... [Nabu and] Nisaba will not confirm him as a teacher. In poverty and deficiency may they put an end to his...; may they kill [him] with dropsy."
78 Babylonian Calendar The problem with calendars is coordinating the different cycles: days, months, years, and seasons. They don t come in nice integral multiples. By the way, there were two seasons in Babylon, Summer (barley harvest) and Winter (roughly our fall/winter).
79 Babylonian Calendar Months in Babylon started when a new moon (actually, a visible crescent) first appeared. So the priest-astronomers would watch and announce the beginning of the month. This was common in other cultures, too.
80 Calendar In Rome, a Pontifex (priest) observed the sky and announced a new moon and therefore the new month to the king. For centuries afterward Romans referred to the first day of each new month as Kalends from their word calare (to announce solemnly, to call out). The word calendar derived from this custom.
81 Babylonian Calendar Calendar based on cycles of the moon, and needed to be reconciled with the solar year. Alternated 29- and 30-day months, and added an extra month three times in every 8 years. This still necessitated the King adding an extra month every now and then when the seasons shifted too far.
82 Babylonian Calendar In the reign of king Nabû-Nasir, the astronomers of Babylon recognized that 235 lunar months are almost identical to 19 solar years. (The difference is only two hours.) They concluded that seven out of nineteen years ought to be leap years with an extra month.
83 Babylonian Calendar In the reign of king Nabû-Nasir, the astronomers of Babylon recognized that 235 lunar months are almost identical to 19 solar years. (The difference is only two hours.) They concluded that seven out of nineteen years ought to be leap years with an extra month.
84 Babylonian Calendar By about 500 BC, there were six years when a second month Addaru is added, and one year with an extra Ululu. The result is that the first day of the month Nisanu (New year's day) was never far (< 27 days) from the vernal equinox, so that the civil calendar and the seasons were never far out of step.
85 Wrapping Up Babylonian mathematics was practically-oriented, aimed at solving problems of commerce, calendaring, and so forth. There is some evidence that Scribes developed a culture of doing difficulty problems to show off their skill. (Think about the I found a stone problems.)
86 Wrapping Up We don t know exactly how the Scribes came up with their solutions, since they only wrote down the numerical steps of a solution. They could solve linear and quadratic equations, understood right triangle relations, had some efficient and accurate arithmetic capabilities. They were pretty good astronomers.
87 Vestiges of Babylon in Our Culture Zodiac 360 degrees, 60 minutes, 60 seconds 12 hour clocks Decimal numbers Others?
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