Notes
1 Quoting Wesley M Stevens ‘Astronomy in Carolingian Schools’, in Karl der Grosse und sein Nachwirken: 1200 Jahre Kultur und Wissenschaft in Europa, P L Butzer et al. (eds), Brepols, 1998, 421.
2 Eleanor Robson, Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100–1600 BC: technical constants in bureaucracy and education, Clarendon Press, 1999.
3 See for example Christine Proust, Tablettes mathematiques de Nippur (De Boccard, 2007) and Christine Proust, Tablettes mathématiques de la collection Hilprecht (Harrassowitz, 2008).
4 See Jens H⊘yrup, Lengths, widths, surfaces: a portrait of old Babylonian algebra and its kin (Springer, 2002) and Jim Ritter, ‘Reading Strasbourg 368: A thrice-told tale’, in Karine Chemla (ed) History of science, history of text (Springer, 2005), 177–200.