Many years ago a lecturer of mine had a photocopy of a page from a book containing a math problem ( I think it was a simple quadradic equation ) that was stated/solved in Cuneiform, Arabic, Latin scripts and Finally in modern math notation.
I have contacted my lecturer but he has no idea where it was from, nor I have been able to find it using google books searches etc.
Does anyone know where to find it?
Thank you in advance
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Click on Historical overview in the section Solving polynomials at the webpage: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery/index.html
This is not quite what you where asking for, as it is the solution to the quadratic, cubic, quartic, quinitic,... But I think you will still like it!
It looks like it could be this book : A History Of Mathematical Notations Vol I (1928) Florian Cajori http://www.archive.org/details/historyofmathema031756mbp
It would probably interest you even if it's not the exact same one.