Abraham Sachs

Abraham Joseph Sachs (born December 11, 1914 in Baltimore , † April 22, 1983 in Providence , Rhode Island ) was an American mathematician and Assyriologist .

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Sachs received his doctorate in 1939 from Johns Hopkins University and then worked for several years as a scientist at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , where he worked on an Assyriological Dictionary ( Chicago Assyrian Dictionary ). In 1941 he became a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Assistant Professor at Brown University , where he worked closely with Otto Neugebauer and worked on Babylonian astronomical and mathematical cuneiform texts (among other things , he published astronomical observational texts and GADEx texts , some of which he had discovered in the British Museum ). . In 1945/46 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . In 1946 he was one of the founding members of the Department for History of Mathematics at Brown University, where he became Professor of Mathematical History in 1954.

Fonts

• as editor with Otto Neugebauer : Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (= American Oriental Series . 29, ZDB -ID 417829-4 ). American Oriental Society et al., New Haven CT 1945.
• Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. Completed and edited by Hermann Hunger . 7 volumes. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1988–2014.

literature

• Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 , ( Science networks 27).