Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History by Eleanor Robson Princeton and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, xxvii + 472 PP., Bibliography, indexes of tablets, and subjects. US$49.50/£34.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-09182-2

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Published inThe Mathematical intelligencer Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 65 - 67
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