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A portion of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Ahmes (Ancient Egyptian: jꜥḥ-ms “, a common Egyptian name also transliterated Ahmose) was an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived towards the end of the Fifteenth Dynasty (and of the Second Intermediate Period) and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (and of the New Kingdom). He wrote the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work of ancient Egyptian mathematics that dates to approximately 1550 BC;[1] he is the earliest contributor to mathematics whose name is known.[2][3]
See also
- List of ancient Egyptian scribes
References
- ^ "The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus". britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- ^ Pickover, Clifford A. (2009), The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., p. 36, ISBN 978-1-4027-5796-9.
- ^ Derbyshire, John (2006), Unknown quantity: a real and imaginary history of algebra, National Academies Press, p. 29, ISBN 978-0-309-09657-7.
External links
- The Ahmes Papyrus
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ahmes", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.