Organiser : Agathe Keller (CNRS, CHSA, SPHERE)
This seminar is organized around a presentation of a primary source and the problems it raises, followed by a reading of this published and translated source. A session of the seminar can last up to 3 hours, and is conducted by experienced researchers, doctoral students or even master’s students.
This seminar has a declension in the form of the cuneiform text reading seminar for those interested in cuneiform writing.
PROGRAM 2019-2020
| October 7 | November 4 | December 16 | January 6, 2020 | February 3 | March 2 | May 4 | May 18 | June 15 |
On Mondays, 14:00–17:00, Room Gris, 734A* (tbc)
Details of sessions will be displayed on this page from September/October on
2019/10/7
- Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHere)
Fondamental figures
11/4
- Guillaume Toucas (Université de Paris (Diderot), SPHERE)
Late babylonian mathematical procedure texts; Guillaume Loizelet Problèmes des Spheres chez Ptolémée et al-Biruni [titre définitf à venir]
12/16
Une règle et sa demonstration: une discussion des suites géométriques par Pṛthūdaka./A rule and its proof: a discussion by Pṛthūdaka on geometrical progressions
2020/1/6
- Camille Lecompte
Calculer des surfaces aux époques archaïques (Mésopotamie, 4e et 3e millénaires avant l’ère commune): des exemples tirés de tablettes de Jemdet-Nasr, Umma, Fara, Girsu et autres provenances inconnues [à confirmer]
Program in construction, the details will be displayed from October on
