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Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics

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The mathematics of ancient Egypt used to be fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn’t a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. In reality, it can’t be understood the usage of our current computational methods. Count Like an Egyptian provides a fun, hands-on introduction to the intuitive and incessantly-surprising art of ancient Egyptian math. David Reimer guides you step by step through addition, subtraction, multiplication, and more. He even shows you how fractions and decimals may have been calculated―they technically didn’t exist in the land of the pharaohs. You’ll be counting like an Egyptian very quickly, and along the way you’ll learn firsthand how mathematics is an expression of the culture that uses it, and why there’s more to math than rote memorization and bewildering abstraction.

Reimer takes you on a full of life and entertaining tour of the ancient Egyptian world, providing rich historical details and amusing anecdotes as he presents a host of mathematical problems drawn from different eras of the Egyptian past. Each of these problems is sort of a tantalizing puzzle, incessantly with a beautiful and elegant solution. As you solve them, you’ll be immersed in many facets of Egyptian life, from hieroglyphs and pyramid building to agriculture, religion, and even bread baking and beer brewing.

Fully illustrated in color right through, Count Like an Egyptian also teaches you some Babylonian computation―the precursor to our modern system―and compares ancient Egyptian mathematics to today’s math, letting making a decision for yourself which is better.

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