Count Like an Egyptian
A lively collection of fun and challenging problems in ancient Egyptian math
The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn''t a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. In fact, it can’t be understood using our current computational methods. Count Like an Egyptian provides a fun, hands-on introduction to the intuiti...
A lively collection of fun and challenging problems in ancient Egyptian math
The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn''t a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. In fact, it can’t be understood using our current computational methods. Count Like an Egyptian provides a fun, hands-on introduction to the intuiti...
