Book:Ahmes/Rhind Papyrus/Historical Note
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Historical Note on the Rhind Papyrus
The Rhind Papyrus was named after Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scottish antiquarian who obtained it in $1858$ when he was in Luxor, Egypt.
It was written in about $\text {1659}$ $\text {BCE}$ by Ahmes, who describes himself as a scribe, copying a work which was written some $2$ centuries earlier.
It arrived at the British Museum in $1863$.
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): The World's Oldest Puzzle: $1$
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Rhind papyrus
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Rhind papyrus