Picture Credits
The author thanks the following for permission to reproduce figures and illustrations in this text:
The Schøyen Collection, Oslo and London, for tablet MS1844 (fig. 1.1), bpk/Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin - Vorderasiatisches Museum, for tablet VAT16773 (fig. 1.2), the Yale Babylonian Collection
for tablets YBC 4652 and YBC7289 (figs. 1.3 and 1.6), Duncan Melville for the tables of cuneiform
numerals (figs. 1.4 and 1.5), the Musé du Louvre for tablet AO03448 (fig. 1.7); the Department
of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge for fig. 3.6, Springer Publications, New York
for fig. 3.10; World Scientific Publishing for fig. 4.3; MIT Press for fig. 4.6; Roshdi Rashed for
figs. 5.5 and 5.6; the Trustees of the National Gallery, London, for fig. 6.1; C. H. Beck’sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich for figs. 6.3 and 6.5; Dover Publications, New York for fig. 6.4; the
Regents of the University of California for fig. 7.5, and Cambridge University Press for figs. 7.
and 7.9; the M. C. Escher Company, the Netherlands for fig. 8.3; Donu Arapura for fig. 9.4; Mladen
Bestvina for figs. 9.6 and 9.8 (created with Knotplot); James Gleick for fig. 10.3; Robert Devaney
for fig. 10.4.
Every effort has been made to contact and acknowledge the copyright owners of all figures and
illustrations presented in this text, any omissions will be gladly rectified.