Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in what’s now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some 4,000 years later, that schoolwork survives, as do the student’s ...
Peter Gouzouasis received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada for this research. Martin Guhn received funding, together with Principal Investigator Dr.