Book:Ahmes/Rhind Papyrus
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Ahmes: Rhind Papyrus
Published $\text {c. BCE 1650}$
Contents
Contains an approximation for $\pi$ (pi) of $\paren {\dfrac {16} 9}^2$.
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Also known as
The Rhind papyrus is also sometimes referred to as the Ahmes papyrus, after the scribe Ahmes whose work it was.
Some sources refer to it with its full description: Rhind mathematical papyrus.
Historical Note
The Rhind Papyrus was named after Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scottish antiquarian who obtained it in $1858$ when he was in Luxor, Egypt.
It was written in about $\text {1659}$ $\text {BCE}$ by Ahmes, who describes himself as a scribe, copying a work which was written some $2$ centuries earlier.
It arrived at the British Museum in $1863$.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): The World's Oldest Puzzle: $1$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41971 \ldots$
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Rhind papyrus
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Rhind papyrus