November 05, 2006 05:47AM
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Hi Don,
Some of the known mathimatical papyri are described as student level. Even the formation of the hieratic characters is described as being at the hand of an inexperienced scribner.
The point that stays in my mind is that the known mathimatical papyri date from the Middle Kingdom. (A few apparently have not been dated.)
There is an inscription in the tomb of Methen describing the area of a rectangle. It dates to the 3rd Dynasty.
So, essentially, the evidence we have dates from 500 years or more after the time of Khufu. The principle document, the Rhind Papyrus, dates from 1,000 years later.
A second point that stays in my mind is that the number of know mathimatical papyri is very, very small. It is like having a few random pages from a 1,000 year collection of books.
That seems to be very tenuous evidence for the mathematical knowledge possessed by Egyptians of Khufu's time. It's not much evidence for the knowledge of the time they were written, much less for 500 to 1,000 years before.
C. Wayne Taylor
Richmond, Virginia USA
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