Chapter one: Scope, methods, sources
1.1 The subject: ancient Iraq and its mathematics
1.2 the artefacts: Assyriological and mathematical analysis
1.3 The contexts: textuality, materiality, and social history
Chapter two: Before the mid-third millennium
2.1 Background and evidence
2.2 Quantitative management and emerging statehood
2.3 Enumeration and abstraction
2.4 Symmetry, geometry, and visual culture
Chapter three: The later third millennium
3.1 Background and evidence
3.2 Maps, plans, and itineraries: visual and textual representations of spatial relationships
3.3 Accounting for time and labour: approximation, standardisation, prediction
3.4 The development of the sexagesimal place value system (spvs)
Chapter four: The early second millennium
4.1 Background and evidence
4.2 Metrology, multiplication, memorisation: elementary mathematics education
4.3 Words and pictures, reciprocals and squares
4.4 Measurement, justice, and the ideology of kingship
5.1 Background and evidence
5.2 Palatial and mercantile numeracy in early Assyria
5.3 Counting heads, marking time: quantifications in royal inscriptions and records
5.4 Aru: number manipulation in Neo-Assyrian scholarship
Chapter six: The later second millennium
6.1 Background and evidence
6.2 Tabular accounting in southern Babylonia
6.3 Land surveyors and their records in northern Babylonia
6.4 Quantification as literary device in the epic of Gilgames
Chapter seven: The early first millennium
7.1 Background and evidence
7.2 Libraries and schools: the formalisation of the first-millennium scribal curriculum
7.3 Home economics: numeracy in a mid-first-millennium urban household
7.4 Measuring houses, maintaining professionalism
Chapter eight: The later first millennium
8.1 Background and evidence
8.2 Babylon: mathematics in the service of astronomy?
8.3 Achaemenid Uruk: the Sangu-Ninurta and Ekur-zkir families
8.4 Seleucid Uruk: the Hunzu and Sin-leqi-unninni families
9.1 The big picture: three millennia of mathematics in ancient Iraq
9.2 Ancient mathematics in the modern world
9.3 Inside ancient mathematics: translation, representation, interpretation
9.4 The worlds of ancient mathematics: history, society, community
Appendix a: Metrological systems
Appendix b: Published mathematical tablets.
