Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs classic magic tricks

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Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs classic magic tricksIn the past, scholars have tended to dismiss the mathematics of the ancient Egyptians as "child's play," compared with the achievements of the Greeks and other later civilizations. Nevertheless, in a society that achieved the marvelous accuracy of construction revealed in the Pyramids, extensive systems of irrigation canals, the erection of large granaries, levying and collecting of taxes, and other evidences of a well organized and highly developed