Eleanor Robson

Eleanor Robson (born 1969 ) is a British historian of science Altorientalistin and especially the Mesopotamian mathematics.

Robson studied from 1987 at the University of Warwick and from 1991 at the University of Oxford ( Wolfson College). 1995/96 she was Junior Lecturer in Akkadian in Oxford. She is Reader at the University of Cambridge. Robson is deputy director of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (formerly British School of Archeology of Iraq ). She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

She was active in the protection of cultural property in Iraq in the face of massive illegal excavations after the Gulf War. She lives in Oxford.

For her essay on Plimpton 322, she received the Lester Randolph Ford Award. For Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History, she received the 2011 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society.

Writings

  • With Jacqueline Stedall (Editor): Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, Oxford University Press 2009
  • Mathematics in Ancient Iraq - a social history, Princeton University Press 2008
  • Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education, Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, Volume 14, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999
  • Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, G.G. Zólyomi: The Literature of Ancient Sumer, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004
  • M. Campbell - Kelly, M. Croarken, R. G. Flood ( Editor): The History of Mathematical Tables from Sumer to Spreadsheets, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003.
  • Luke Treadwell, Chris Gosden: Who owns objects? -the ethics and politics of collecting cultural artefacts ( Proceedings of the first St. Cross All Souls Seminar Series and Workshop, Oxford, from October to December 2004), Oxbow Books 2006
  • Mesopotamian Mathematics, among others, in Eric Katz Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam - a sourcebook, Princeton University Press 2007
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