This is the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt. It contains 84 different mathematical problems - such as how to distribute 100 loaves of bread among a workforce in ...

It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives conundrum (the one where the seven wives each has seven sacks containing seven cats, who each has seven kits, and you have to figure out how many are ...

The analysis of Problem 60 of the Rhind mathematical papyrus, the final exercise in a section devoted to the calculation of linear measures of monuments, is problematic, in particular with reference ...

The Rhind Papyrus In 1700 B. C. an Egyptian scribe named A'h-mosè set down his "knowledge of existing things all," a document which is now the principal source of what we know of Egyptian mathematics ...