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A Brief Study of Some Aspects of Babylonian Mathematics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Beginning over 4000 years ago, the Babylonians were discovering how to use mathematics to perform functions of daily life and to evolve as a dominant civilization.
Zara, Tom
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On the issue of imposing boundary conditions on quantum fields [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
An interesting example of the deep interrelation between Physics and Mathematics is obtained when trying to impose mathematical boundary conditions on physical quantum fields. This procedure has recently been re-examined with care.
Bordag M   +31 more
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¿Donde estan las Necropolis Uruk?

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2011
Hasta la mediados de la decáda de 1990, la ausencia de entrerramientos Uruk (IV milenio a.C.) fue una constante entre el registro arqueológico de Mesopotamia.
Jesús Gil Fuensanta
doaj   +1 more source

A Secondary Tool for Demarcation Problem: Logical Fallacies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to Thagard, the behavior of practitioners of a field may also be used for demarcation between science and pseudoscience due to its social dimension in addition to the epistemic one.
Uyar, Tevfik
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Inequality and Wealth Creation in Ancient History: Malthus' Theory Reconsidered [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The main purpose of this paper is to propose the hypothesis that inequality was essential for the sustainability and ‘development’ of early agriculturally based societies that developed in Prehistory and Ancient History.
Svizzero, Serge, Tisdell, Clem
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Technology and Culture: Humans Inventing Themselves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus who stole fire from the god, Zeus, humans have been befuddled by their own cleverness. We make useful tools and devices which seem to free humans for higher pursuits only to discover that the unintended ...
Haas, William Paul
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On the Babylonian Origin of Symbolic Logic

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2017
The logical reasoning first appeared within the Babylonian legal tradition established by the Sumerians in the law codes which were first over the world: Ur-Nammu (ca. 2047 – 2030 B.C.); Lipit-Ishtar (ca. 1900 – 1850 B.C.), and later by their successors,
Schumann Andrew
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Conflict and Renewable Resources [PDF]

open access: yes
The economic literature on conflict employs a static game theoretic frame- work developed by Jack Hirshleifer. We extend this literature by explicitly introducing conflict dynamics into the model.
John W. Maxwell, Rafael Reuveny
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Language and identity in the Assyrian diaspora [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
McClure, Erica F.
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