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Refers especially to words in nos. 35-38 of the Rhind papyrus, and constitutes an addition to his paper of 1882. I have followed Peet (1923, 2) in the above translation of the title. Gunn 1926 [1923] thinks that it is possible that the word "become" should be substituted for “returned."
Simon, M ., "Über die Mathematik der Ägypter," Verhandlung des III. Internationalen Mathematiker Kongresses in Heidelberg, Leipzig, 1904. pp. 526-535.
A review (not always convincing) of some known facts concerning the Rhind papyrus.
1905
Bobynin, V. V., "Iz lektsii istorii prepodavaniya matematiki. Pervichnuie metodni ryesheniya voprosov iz oblasti nauki chisel" [Some pages from the history of the teaching of mathematics. The earliest methods of solution of questions in the field of the science of numbers], Zhurnal Ministerstva Narodnago Prosvycshcheniya [Journal of the Ministry of Public Instruction], St. Petersburg, April. 1905. part 2. pp. 314-357.
In part supplementary to Bobynin (1882); see Bobynin (1909). Some extracts from the "history" were published in Bobynin (1894). An abstract appeared in Dnevnik ix-go Syezda Russlzilzh Estestvoispuitatelei Vrachei [Diary of the IX. Congress of Russian Naturalists and Physicists], no. 7, pp. 20-21.
Miller,G. A.,"The mathematical handbook of Ahmes," School Science and Mathematics, Chicago, vol. 5, 1905, pp. 567-574:
Descriptive.
Crum, W. E., Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum, London, 1905, no. 528, pp. 256-260.
Ms. Or. 5707, a palimpsest in Coptic and Greek, containing tables and problems. Red ink is used for dividing lines, red and green for ornamental headings; red, green, and yellow for the pictures. Only a small part of the text is transcribed, and very little of that is translated. The extant text is divided into two parts. The first set of tables (folios 1a—5b) contains the products of 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, . ., 90, 100, 200,. . ., 900, 1000, 2000,. . ., 9000 by 2, 20, 200, 2000, 3, 30, 300, 3000, . . ., 9, 90, 900, 9000. This statement, checked with the manuscript, corrects and slightly supplements that made by Crum. It is
