Ahmose

Ahmose in hieroglyphs

Ahmose is an Ancient Egyptian name meaning "The Moon is born" or "Child of the Moon". It was a very popular name in the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty.

Ahmos (3700 years ago

One of the greatest mathematicians of all times is the African scribe, Ahmos, who lived approximately 3,700 years ago. The World Book Encyclopedia credits him with creating algebra with these words. The first definite traces of algebra were found in the writings of the Egyptian, Ahmos, who lived about 1700 B.C. or earlier. Much later the Greeks added their contributions to its development.Ahmos wrote a mathematical textbook for children consisting of more than eighty mathematical problems and their solutions. This ancient papyrus was discovered in the tomb of Ahmos in the mid-nineteenth century. Many exercises in the book show us that Africans, two thousand years before the Greeks, studied the mathematics of the pyramid and of the cone, the tangent, the sine, the cosine, and the cotangent, according to Cheikh Anta Diop. The problems in the Ahmos Papyrus addressed the surface of the sphere, the square root, and many other mathematical concepts. It also addressed the calculations to determine the lengths of the sides of a right triangle based on the formula that the hypotenuse squared is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.An example showing how Europeans have robbed the world of the knowledge of the contributions of African people is this note: A Greek, named Pythagoras, born 1,100 hundred years after Ahmos, ca. 580 B.C., came to Egypt as a student and learned the Ahmos method of calculating the length of the sides of a right triangle. He went back to Greece and claimed this methodology for himself, calling it the Pythagorean Theorem, which we in error call it today instead of its correct name, the Ahmos Theorem. Problem 79 in the Ahmos Papyrus deals with a geometric progression of a ratio of seven called, The inventory of goods contained in a house. Most people will recognize the similarity with the Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme, (As I Was Going To St. Ives) written more than two thousand years afterwards. While this papyrus is the Ahmos Papyrus, it is known to the Euro-centric world as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. This is because after it was found in the tomb of the scribe, Ahmos, it was purchased by the Scotsman Alexander Rhind who brought it to London and elected to ignore its author and named it the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. Today it can be seen in the British Museum.

This name may refer to:

Pharaohs

• Ahmose I, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and founder of the Eighteenth dynasty
• Amasis (also known as Ahmose II), a pharaoh of the Twenty Sixth dynasty

Queens

• Ahmose-Henuttamehu, a queen of the 17th dynasty
• Ahmose Inhapy, a queen of the 17th dynasty
• Ahmose Nefertari, a queen of the 18th dynasty
• Ahmose Meritamon, a queen of the 18th dynasty
• Ahmose-Sitkamose, a queen of the 17th dynasty
• Queen Ahmose, a queen of the 18th dynasty, mother of Pharaoh Hatshepsut

Other royalty

• Ahmose, a son of Tao II the Brave; possibly identical with Pharaoh Ahmose I, though his only known statue (today in the Louvre) seems to be a funerary statue
• Ahmose (18th dynasty), a prince of the 18th dynasty
• Ahmose (princess), a princess of the 17th dynasty
• Ahmose-ankh, son of Ahmose I and Ahmose-Nefertari; shown on a Karnak stela with his parents (now in the Luxor Museum)
• Ahmose-Henutemipet, a princess of the 17th dynasty
• Ahmose-Meritamon (17th dynasty), a princess of the 17th dynasty
• Ahmose-Nebetta, a princess of the 17th dynasty, probably a daughter of Tao II the Brave
• Ahmose-Sipair, a prince of the 18th dynasty
• Ahmose-Sitamun, a princess of the 18th dynasty
• Ahmose-Tumerisy, a princess of the 17th dynasty
• Ahmose (26th dynasty), prince and general (26th dynasty)

Officials

• Ahmose, also known as Ahmes, a scribe of the Second Intermediate Period who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.
• Ahmose, son of Ebana, an admiral who served in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth dynasties
• Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet, official who served under Ahmose I and his successors