Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts

Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts
Author: Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479801771

A comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration. The book will be of interest to papyrologists and scholars who are interested in the history and culture of late antiquity, the history of education, literacy, the ancient economy, and the history of science and mathematics.

Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science

Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science
Author: Franco Pavese
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2008-12-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817648046

This book provide a comprehensive set of modeling methods for data and uncertainty analysis, taking readers beyond mainstream methods and focusing on techniques with a broad range of real-world applications. The book will be useful as a textbook for graduate students, or as a training manual in the fields of calibration and testing. The work may also serve as a reference for metrologists, mathematicians, statisticians, software engineers, chemists, and other practitioners with a general interest in measurement science.

Civilizations of the Ancient Near East

Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Author: Jack M. Sasson
Publisher: Free Press
Total Pages: 898
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

Consists of articles organized in eleven parts: the ancient Near East in Western thought; the environment; population; social institutions; history and culture; economy and trade; technology and artistic production; religion and science; language, writing, and literature; visual and performing arts; and retrospective essays.

Soft Modeling in Industrial Manufacturing

Soft Modeling in Industrial Manufacturing
Author: Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030032019

This book discusses the problems of complexity in industrial data, including the problems of data sources, causes and types of data uncertainty, and methods of data preparation for further reasoning in engineering practice. Each data source has its own specificity, and a characteristic property of industrial data is its high degree of uncertainty. The book also explores a wide spectrum of soft modeling methods with illustrations pertaining to specific cases from diverse industrial processes. In soft modeling the physical nature of phenomena may not be known and may not be taken into consideration. Soft models usually employ simplified mathematical equations derived directly from the data obtained as observations or measurements of the given system. Although soft models may not explain the nature of the phenomenon or system under study, they usually point to its significant features or properties.

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Author: National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain). Metrology Centre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1226
Release: 1962
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