Sesheta
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Sesheta, or Sefkhet-Aabut is the goddess of learning and writing. Her name was sometimes thought to mean 'she who has inverted the horns' or 'she who is provided with seven horns'. The first part of her name Sefkhet is also a word for seven.
She is the ultimate scribe, the goddess of scribes (the word for scribe is sesh). In her hands she holds a scribe's palette and writing reed. She was a goddess of the library as well. She is sometimes called "great one, lady of letters, mistress of the house of books". She was thought of to be a recording angel, and was an associate of Thoth, the god of mathematics.
Her name in hieroglyphics:
Sesheta or
is a good 'friendly' to Thoth - god of mathematics. See more about him here.
Other topics on Egyptian mathematics
An Egyptian scribe from the Fourth Dynasty. The word scribe is applied to clerks, copyists and, more importantly to the class of bureaucratic officials on whom the whole Egyptian system was based. They were an elite who passed their profession from father to son. Scribes were very powerful, or so we think now, as the popularity of the scribe statues overtakes popularity of any other statues apart from god forms.
To learn about gods which are related to mathematics, or learning, click here.
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