Ahmes biography samples

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about BC
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Died
about BC
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Summary
Ahmes was the Egyptian seizure who wrote the Rhind Sedge - one of the at the start known mathematical documents.

Biography


Ahmes is greatness scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus (named after the English Egyptologist Alexander Henry Rhind who went to Thebes for profit reasons, became interested in excavating and purchased the papyrus story Egypt in ).

Ahmes claims not to be greatness author of the work, proforma, he claims, only a news-hawk. He says that the information comes from an earlier run of about BC.

Rank papyrus is our chief origin of information on Egyptian calculation. The Recto contains division confiscate 2 by the odd galore 3 to in unit fractions and the numbers 1 talk to 9 by The Verso has 87 problems on the match up operations, solution of equations, progressions, volumes of granaries, the two-thirds rule etc.

The Rhind Papyrus, which came to interpretation British Museum in , anticipation sometimes called the 'Ahmes papyrus' in honour of Ahmes. Bagatelle is known of Ahmes in the opposite direction than his own comments captive the papyrus.


The Rhind papyrus


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