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Jens Høyrup

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Gender Male
Age 80
Date of birth October 22,1943
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Copenhagen
Denmark
Field History of mathematics
Education Copenhagen University
BooksSelected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice
Jacopo Da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture
Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin
Human Sciences: Reappraising the Humanities Through History and Philosophy
As Regards the Humanities--: An Approach to Their Theory Through History and Philosophy
The Art of Knowing: An Essay on Epistemology in Practice
In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture
Institutions, Professions, and Ideas: An Approach to the Theory of the Humanities Through Their History and Institutional Settings and Their Implicit Anthropologies ; Lecture Notes
Awards Kenneth O. May Prize
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Jens Egede Høyrup, born 1943 in Copenhagen, is a Danish historian of mathematics, specializing in pre-modern and early modern mathematics, ancient Mesopotamian mathematics in particular.

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