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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Pam Belluck, Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus.
New York Times, Dec. 7, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/science/07first.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=papyrus&st=cse
My comment:
(a) As I was going to St Ives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_was_going_to_St_Ives
Quote:
"The earliest known published version of it comes from a manuscript dated to
around 1730 (but it differs in referring to 'nine' rather than 'seven'
wives). The modern form was first printed around 1825. A similar problem
appears in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (Problem 79), dated to around 1650
BC.
"There are a number of places called St Ives in England and elsewhere. It is
generally thought that the rhyme refers to St Ives, Cornwall
(b)
(i) St Ia's Church, St Ives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ia's_Church,_St_Ives
(The church is dedicated to Saint Ia the Virgin, also known as Ives)
(ii) History of St Ives. St Ives, Cornwall.
http://www.stives-cornwall.co.uk/history-of-st-ives.html
Start from Paragraph 4.
(iii) See the map in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ives,_Cornwall
(c) Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus
(named after Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scottish antiquarian, who purchased
the papyrus in 1858 in Luxor, Egypt; it was apparently found during illegal
excavations in or near the Ramesseum; dates to around 1650 BC; The British
Museum, where the papyrus is now kept, acquired it in 1864 along with the
Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, also owned by Henry Rhind; It is one of
the two well-known Mathematical Papyri along with the Moscow Mathematical
Papyrus)
(d) The English noun papurus" is actually Latin (which in turn came from
Greek papyros), with plural form papyri or papyruses (the former is plural
form in Latin, whereas the latter, in English). The English noun paper came
from papyrus.
(e) I can not find a photograph of Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll or of
Akhmim Wooden Tablets.
Akhmim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhmim
(modern name of a city)
(f)
(i) Eye of Horus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus
Check out section 3 In arithmetic, especially the panel in the lower left
corner.
(ii) Horus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus |
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