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In seven houses there are seven cats.Each cat catches seven mice. Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn and each ear of corn, if sown, would have produced seven gallons of grain. How many things are mentioned in total?
七個(gè)房間，每個(gè)房間里有七只貓，每只貓抓七只老鼠，每只老鼠要吃掉七根玉米，每根玉米若被播種，能收獲七加侖糧食，請(qǐng)問本題中提及的東西的總數(shù)量？
While you're counting, I'll tell you that this is just one of nearly a hundred similar problems, all equally complicated, all carefully written out, with the answers, and showing the workings in best schoolbook manner, that are recorded in the Rhind Mathematical Papyru.
在你埋頭苦算的時(shí)候，我要告訴你的是萊因德紙草書上一共記載了幾十道類似的問題，它們的難度相當(dāng)，書寫工整，備有答案，完全是一本優(yōu)秀的教科書。
the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt, and the major source for our understanding of how the Egyptians thought about numbers.
這是古埃及流傳下來的最著名的數(shù)學(xué)手卷，也是我們了解埃及人數(shù)字概念的主要途徑。
"Some of the maths is very very practical, other problems are more abstract."
一些數(shù)學(xué)問題非常具有實(shí)用性,其他則更抽象。”
"I think we see the beginnings of a realisation that mathematics is not about specific numbers, about specific problems; that you can extract from it general procedures, general rules, that you can follow in lots of cases."
“我認(rèn)為我們最開始看到的數(shù)學(xué)不是那些具體的數(shù)字,而是有關(guān)具體的問題,在很多情況下,你可以從中提取通用法則,一般規(guī)則,這些你都是可以依照的。”
A history of the world.
世界歷史，
In a hundred objects.
百件藏品，
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus,around 3,500 years discovered in Thebes, Egypt.
發(fā)現(xiàn)于埃及古城底比斯的萊因德數(shù)學(xué)紙草書
