数学家传记
Ahmes是编写了莱因德纸草书的埃及书吏——这是已知最古老的数学文献之一。
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Ahmes是抄写⟦L2⟧的抄书吏（该纸草以苏格兰埃及学家Alexander Henry Rhind命名，他因健康原因前往底比斯，对发掘产生兴趣，并于1858年在埃及购得该纸草）。
Ahmes声称自己不是这部著作的作者，他说自己只是一个抄写员。他说材料来自大约公元前2000年的一部更早的著作。
这份纸草书是我们了解埃及数学的主要信息来源。正面包含用单位分数表示2除以从3到101的奇数以及1到9除以10的结果。背面有87个问题，涉及四则运算、方程求解、数列、粮仓体积、三分之二法则等。
Ahmes纸草书于1863年入藏大英博物馆，有时被称为“Ahmes纸草书”以纪念Ahmes。除了Ahmes在纸草书中的自述外，人们对Ahmes一无所知。
关于这份纸草书上某些数学内容的细节见埃及纸草书中的数学。
⟦N1⟧纸草书
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Ahmes is the scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus (named after the Scottish Egyptologist Alexander Henry Rhind who went to Thebes for health reasons, became interested in excavating and purchased the papyrus in Egypt in 1858).
Ahmes claims not to be the author of the work, being, he claims, only a scribe. He says that the material comes from an earlier work of about 2000 BC.
The papyrus is our chief source of information on Egyptian mathematics. The Recto contains division of 2 by the odd numbers 3 to 101 in unit fractions and the numbers 1 to 9 by 10. The Verso has 87 problems on the four operations, solution of equations, progressions, volumes of granaries, the two-thirds rule etc.
The Rhind Papyrus, which came to the British Museum in 1863, is sometimes called the 'Ahmes papyrus' in honour of Ahmes. Nothing is known of Ahmes other than his own comments in the papyrus.
Details of some of the mathematics on this papyrus is at THIS LINK.
The Rhind papyrus
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