Mathieu Ossendrijver reports about his research on fragments of Late-Babylonian cuneiform tablets on rbb kulturradio. The tablets belong to the Babylon collection of the British Museum. On the basis of the fragments Matthieu Ossendrijver could reconstruct unique mathematical tables.

Listen to the interview on rbb kulturradio (available up to June 22, 2014):

—> Rechenkünste der spätbabylonischen Mathematik

Further information

—> Press release of July 11, 2014: Rechenkünste der spätbabylonischen Mathematik
—> Mathieu Ossendrijver on www.topoi.org
—> Research project (D-1-1) Mathematical astronomy in Babylonia