Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll - Chronology

Chronology

The following chronology shows several milestones that marked the recent progress toward reporting a clearer understanding of the EMLR's contents, related to the RMP 2/n table.

• 1895 – Hultsch suggested that all RMP 2/p series were coded by aliquot parts.
• 1927 – Glanville concluded that EMLR arithmetic was purely additive.
• 1929 – Vogel reported the EMLR to be more important (than the RMP), though it contains only 25 unit fraction series.
• 1950 – Bruins independently confirms Hultsch’s RMP 2/p analysis (Bruins 1950)
• 1972 – Gillings found solutions to an easier RMP problem, the 2/pq series (Gillings 1972: 95–96).
• 1982 – Knorr identifies RMP unit fractions 2/35, 2/91 and 2/95 as exceptions to the 2/pq problem.
• 2002 – Gardner identifies five abstract EMLR patterns.