{"id":8174,"date":"2024-09-19T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/prof-dr-jim-ritter\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:34:58","slug":"prof-dr-jim-ritter","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/prof-dr-jim-ritter\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Jim Ritter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Prof. Dr. Jim Ritter (Institut de Math\u00e9matiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, CNRS; Equipe: Histoire des Sciences Math\u00e9matiques) is a historian of science. His research focuses on the history of rational practices in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and on the history of general relativity and unified theories. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project title:<\/strong><br\/>Algorithmic knowledge in Egypt and Mesopotamia<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><br\/>This project aims to construct a database for ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian mathematical problem texts, as a tool for the further development of an algorithmic approach to the study of such corpora; an approach initiated by Jim Ritter and further developed in collaboration with Annette Imhausen. The algorithmic approach, which by means of a linguistic and logical analysis of the solution algorithms represented by several hundred Mesopotamian and Egyptian examples, lends itself particularly well to a systematic approach to the full collection of texts, permitting searches for patterning in sequences of operators both within a given corpus and between corpora; hence the interest in a full database with both linguistic and mathematical information. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events:<br\/><\/strong><em>16 April 2018<\/em><br\/>Workshop &#8220;Procedural knowledge in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia&#8221; at the Cluster of Excellence &#8220;The Formation of Normative Orders&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><em>April 24, 2018<\/em><br\/>Lecture at the History of Science Colloquium by Prof. Annette Warner and Prof. Moritz Epple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Jim Ritter (Institut de Math\u00e9matiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, CNRS; Equipe: Histoire des Sciences Math\u00e9matiques) is a historian of science. His research focuses on the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1671,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8174","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}