The uses of mathematics in ancient Iraq, 6000-600 BC

Every culture has mathematics, but some have more than others. The cuneiform cultures of the pre-Islamic Middle East left a particularly rich mathematical heritage, some of which profoundly influenced late Classical and medieval Arabic traditions, but which was for the most part lost in antiquity and has begun to be recovered only in the last century or so.

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