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        <title type="main">La matematica degli Egizi</title>
        <title type="sub">I papiri matematici del Medio Regno</title>
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            <forename>Alice</forename>
            <surname>Cartocci</surname>
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        <title>Studi e saggi</title>
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        <p>A form of thought in the pure state stripped of the garb of words, mathematics embodies in an essential manner, with numbers and operations, the logical structures of those who have created it. Hence it can represent a source of insight into a lost civilisation. This study has essentially two objectives: to sketch out a compendium of the mathematical themes and techniques known in the Egypt of the Middle Kingdom, and to deduce from these as much information as possible on the Egyptian mentality. The mathematical evidence is tackled here from a dual viewpoint: as the tools of an empirical science of calculation, and also as emblematic of a mode of conceiving mathematics as an instrument of knowledge in the sense of being a reflection of the established order. The evidence throws up the fact that mathematics is not conceived as an abstract science, but rather as the practical preliminary tool of a physics understood as measurement of the quantities and the greatness of the visible world. The role which it plays in the cognitive process is not independent, but always connected with questions of a philosophical nature. It is therefore a practical science in the sense in which the Egyptians understood it, that is an instrument for understanding nature: a science at the service of theology.</p>
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        <p>La matematica degli egizi si propone due obiettivi: tracciare un compendio delle tematiche e delle tecniche matematiche conosciute nell'Egitto del Medio Regno, e dedurre da queste quante più informazioni possibili sulla mentalità egizia.
La matematica, forma di pensiero allo stato puro spogliata della veste delle parole, incarna in maniera essenziale, con numeri e operazioni, le strutture logiche di chi l'ha istituita. Essa può costituire quindi il mezzo per approfondire la conoscenza di una civiltà scomparsa. Le testimonianze matematiche sono qui affrontate sotto una duplice ottica: come strumenti di una scienza empirica del calcolo, ma anche come riflessi di un modo di percepire la matematica quale strumento di conoscenza, perché riflesso dell'ordine costituito. Si desume dalle testimonianze come la matematica non sia concepita come una scienza astratta, ma piuttosto uno strumento pratico preliminare ad una fisica intesa come misura delle quantità e delle grandezze del mondo visibile. Il ruolo che essa svolge nel processo cognitivo non è autonomo ma legato sempre a questioni di ordine filosofico. Essa è dunque una scienza pratica nel senso in cui lo intendevano gli Egizi, cioè uno strumento per conoscere la natura: una scienza al servizio della teologia.
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