Moderns viewing Ancients: The 19th- and 20th-century historiography of ancient Egyptian mathematics

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• Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
• Friday 25 April 2025, 15:00-16:30
• Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

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MHM - Modern History of Mathematics

I will give an informal survey of where our modern knowledge of ancient Egyptian mathematics comes from, and how it was shaped in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries by the often competing interests of Egyptologists, mathematicians, and historians of mathematics.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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