Ahmes
A portion of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Ahmes (more accurately Ahmose) was an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (the first dynasty of the New Kingdom). He wrote the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work of Ancient Egyptian mathematics that dates to approximately 1650 BC; he is the earliest contributor to mathematics whose name is known.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Pickover, Clifford A. (2009), The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., p. 36, ISBN 978-1-4027-5796-9.
- ↑ Derbyshire, John (2006), Unknown quantity: a real and imaginary history of algebra, National Academies Press, p. 29, ISBN 978-0-309-09657-7.
External links
- The Ahmes Papyrus
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ahmes", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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