Jöran Friberg

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Jöran Friberg (born April 29, 1934 in Lund ) is a Swedish mathematician and ancient orientalist.

Jöran Friberg received his PhD from Lund University in 1963 ( Estimates for partially hypoelliptic differential operators ). Friberg was a professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg . He is an internationally recognized expert on mathematical cuneiform texts and emphasizes in his work the influence of Babylonian mathematics on the development of Greek mathematics (which developed around 500 BC) ( e.g. Pythagorean theorem , various sections of Euclid, solutions to quadratic equations) . He also demonstrated the influence of Babylonian mathematics in Pharaonic Egypt. He also dealt with the deciphering of Proto-Sumerian and Proto-Elamite cuneiform texts . Friberg played a key role in the development of a more differentiated picture of Babylonian mathematics from the 1970s, both in terms of the internal development in the late Babylonian period and in terms of the roots in texts of the 3rd millennium.

Fonts

  • The Early Roots of Babylonian Mathematics I-II, Chalmers Inst. Of Technology, Göteborg 1978-9 (Part I: A method for the decipherment of proto-Sumerian and proto-Elamite semi-pictographic inscriptions , Part II: Metrological relations in a group of semi-pictographic tablets of the Jemdet-Nasr type ).
  • The Early Roots of Babylonian Mathematics, III, Three remarkable texts from ancient Ebla , Vicino Oriente Vol. 6, 1986, pp. 3-25.
  • Article Mathematics in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie, Berlin 1990/3
  • with H. Hunger, FNH Al-Rawi: Seed and Reeds, a metro-mathematical topic text from Late Babylonian Uruk , Baghdader Mitteilungen Vol. 21, 1990, pp. 483-557
  • Seed and Reeds Continued. Another metro-mathematical topic text from Late Babylonian Uruk . Baghdader Mitteilungen, Vol. 28, 1997, pp. 251-365, plate 45-46.
  • Round and almost round numbers in proto-literate metro-mathematical field texts . Archive for Orient Research, Vol. 44/45, 1997/98, pp. 1–58.
  • Unexpected links between egyptian and babylonian mathematics , World Scientific 2005
  • Amazing Traces of a babylonian origin of greek mathematics , World Scientific 2007
  • A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts , Springer 2007, also an article of the same name by him in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 55, Issue 9, October 2008, pp. 1076-1086 .
  • A survey of Publications on Sumero-Akkadian Mathematics, metrology and related matters (1854-1982) , 155 pages, Chalmers University of Technology, Universität Göteborg 1982 (annotated bibliography)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ In addition to Friberg, Marvin Powell and Denise Schmandt-Besserat were involved in the revitalization of research on the early days of Babylonian mathematics in the 1970s , Hoyrup Changing trends in the historiography of mesopotamian mathematics- an insiders view , Roskilde University, 1991
personal data
SURNAME Friberg, Jöran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish mathematician and ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Lund