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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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    [These slides](http://math.arizona.edu/~wmc/Talks/Teacher_Circle_2008.pdf) contain pictures of quadratic equations in the 9th century (Arabic) and 17th century (Latin/English).2011-04-18

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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.

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    Hello, +1 $f$or the ref, I have dow$n$loaded the pd$f$ and going through each page to find it as I find time, If I can find the whole thing or the fragments and can make the same thing myself I still will be damn happy! Just need the same equation stated from the Ancient times to modern ( Latex !).2011-04-07
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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!