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Beyond teleology: ancient mathematics and social history - Corinna Rossi. Architecture and mathematics in ancient Egypt. xxii+280 pages, 102 illustrations, 9 tables. 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-69053-9 paperback £19.99 & $39.99; 978-0-521-82954-0 hardback £65 & $110. - Eleanor Robson. Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history. xxx+442 pages, 75 illustrations, 63 tables. 2008. Princeton (NJ) & Oxford: Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-09182-2 hardback £20.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephen Chrisomalis
Stephen Chrisomalis*
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*Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, 656 Reuther Mall, FAB 3054, Detroit, Michigan, USA, 48202 (Email: chrisomalis@wayne.edu)
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 321 , September 2009 , pp. 849 - 851
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