Ahmes ( egy, jꜥḥ-ms “, a common Egyptian name also transliterated Ahmose) was an ancient Egyptian

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who lived towards the end of the

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(and of the

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) and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (and of the

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). He transcribed the

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, a work of

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that dates to approximately 1550 BC; he is the earliest contributor to

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whose name is known. He's also the first mathematician to use

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. Ahmes claimed not to be the writer of the work but rather just the scribe. He claimed the material came from an even older document from around 2000 B.C.

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The Ahmes Papyrus
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmes 16th-century BC people Ancient Egyptian scribes Ancient Egyptian mathematicians

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