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Keywords:
- History of Mathematics,
- Cultures of Quantification/Computation in Ancient Administrations and Economies
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Biographical note
Carlos Gonçalves is an associate professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, a coordinator of the Laboratory of the Ancient Near East at the same university, and a foreign associate researcher at the SPHERE Laboratoire in Paris, France. He is the author of Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal (Springer, 2015).
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