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...ra]] as it was developed and used in [[ancient Egypt]]. [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics]] as discussed here spans a time period ranging from {{abbr|c.|circa}} 3000 ...|title=Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book Volume 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics |series=Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society |volume=232 |location ...

...tive texts, medical texts, veterinarian texts and six fragments devoted to mathematics.<ref>[http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/lahun/papyri.html The Lahun Papyri] ...'Ancient Egyptian Science, A Source Book''. Volume Three: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) American Philosophical Soci ...

{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian unit of measurement}} [[File:seked.svg|thumb|300px|right|Illustration of the ancient Egyptian measure of Seked compared with the slope of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza|Gre ...

...it influenced the development of mathematics, geography, and the calendar; Egyptian geometry advanced due to the practice of land measurement “because the over [[File:Egyptian circle.png|thumb|Egyptian circle]] ...

In [[recreational mathematics]], '''rope-burning puzzles''' are a class of [[mathematical puzzle]] in whi ...ability,{{r|mkg}} and have been suggested as an activity for middle school mathematics students.{{r|brumbaugh}} ...

'''''Ganita Kaumudi''''' ({{langx|sa|गणितकौमदी}}) is a treatise on [[mathematics]] written by Indian mathematician [[Narayana Pandita (mathematician)|Naraya ...divided into 14 chapters (''vyavahāra''):<ref name=mii27>M. D. Srinivas, ''Mathematics In India'', Lecture 27.</ref> ...

=== Possible? Early mathematics === ...onian mathematics|Babylonian]] and [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics|Egyptian mathematics]] solving quadratic equations ...

In [[mathematics]], a '''harmonic progression''' (or '''harmonic sequence''') is a [[sequenc {{Main|Harmonic series (mathematics)}} ...

In [[mathematics]] and especially [[number theory]], the '''sum of reciprocals''' (or '''sum ...into finitely many subsets, then one of the subsets can be used to form an Egyptian fraction representation of 1. ...

...he [[Egyptian numerals|Egyptian demotic numerals]]; Greek letters replaced Egyptian signs. The first examples of the Greek system date back to the 6th century ...fourth, and so on. These fractions were additive and were also known as [[Egyptian fraction]]s. ...

...proportion among a number of beneficiaries. It is a common example of an [[Mathematics of apportionment|apportionment problem]]. ...ar mathematical solution.{{r|sesiano}} Beyond recreational mathematics and mathematics education, the story has been repeated as a [[parable]] with varied metapho ...

...hrough a process known as evolution.<ref>{{cite book | title = A Course of Mathematics: Composed for the Use of the Royal Military Academy | author = Charles Hutt ...ckson | first2=Donald | last2=Bindner |first3= Joe |last3 =Hemmeter |title=Mathematics for the Liberal Arts |date=2014 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=97811183 ...

...> - </math>)}}. More generally, the signed area of an arbitrary [[surface (mathematics)|surface]] region is its [[surface area]] with specified orientation. When ...ancient Mesopotamia]], [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics|Egypt]], and [[Greek mathematics|Greece]] had no explicit concept of [[negative number]]s or signed areas, b ...

{{About|a rope knot|the mathematical version|Square knot (mathematics)}} ...y different other knots such as the mathematical concept of [[Square knot (mathematics)|square knot]], or [[friendship knot]]; this last one earns the name by bei ...

...xistence or first known written account either partially or entirely to an Egyptian person. ...pg|thumb|Tablet of one of the earliest recorded [[treaties]] in history, [[Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty|Treaty of Kadesh]], at the [[Istanbul Archaeology Muse ...

..."'''the rationals'''",<ref>{{cite book |title=Elements of Pure and Applied Mathematics |edition=illustrated |first1=Harry |last1=Lass |publisher=Courier Corporati ...'')}}.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Biggs|first=Norman L.|title=Discrete Mathematics|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|isbn=978-0-19-871369-2|location ...

|lang19=[[Egyptian numerals|Egyptian hieroglyph]], [[Aegean numerals|Aegean numeral]], [[counting rods|Chinese c In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 ...

{{Short description|Babylonian clay tablet on mathematics}} ...f [[Jens Høyrup]]'s extensive analysis of the vocabulary of Old Babylonian mathematics, that underlying the procedures in texts such as IM 67118 was a set of stan ...

| Satisfies a certain [[Egyptian fraction]]. {{Series (mathematics)}} ...

...it of measurement''', or '''unit of measure''', is a definite [[magnitude (mathematics)|magnitude]] of a [[quantity]], defined and adopted by convention or by law ...hmetic Conventions for Conversion Between Roman &#91;i.e. Ottoman&#93; and Egyptian Measurement"] is a manuscript from 1642, in Arabic, which is about units of ...