Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts : A Codex from Late Antique Business Education (P.Math.)
Bagnall, Roger S. (EDT); Jones, Alexander (EDT); Kosova, Katja (CON); Misiewicz, Zoe (CON); Ben-Dov, Jonathan (CON)
Language: English
Published by NYU Press, 2020
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- Title
- Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts : A Codex from Late Antique Business Education (P.Math.)
- Author
- Bagnall, Roger S. (EDT); Jones, Alexander (EDT); Kosova, Katja (CON); Misiewicz, Zoe (CON); Ben-Dov, Jonathan (CON)
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1479801763
- ISBN 13
- 9781479801763
A comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex
Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals.
The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration.
The book will be of interest to papyrologists and scholars who are interested in the history and culture of late antiquity, the history of education, literacy, the ancient economy, and the history of science and mathematics.
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About the Author
Alexander Jones is Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. His work centers on texts and artifacts relating to Greco-Roman mathematical sciences, their intellectual and social context, and their interconnections with scientific traditions in other cultures and periods.
Katja Kosova holds an M.A. in Classics from NYU.
Dr. Zoe Misiewicz holds a PhD from ISAW and is a Lecturer in Mathematics at SUNY Oneonta.
Jonathan Ben-Dov is Senior Lecturer, Department of Bible, at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Head of All Years: Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran in their Ancient Context.
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