It's long been accepted that the ancient Greeks were responsible for developing the mathematical concept of trigonometry, but a new discovery indicates they weren't the first to figure it out after ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-twentieth century, ...
About 3 700 years ago a Babylonian mathematician wrote a trigonometry table on a clay tablet that scientists say is more accurate than anything we have today. The table predates Pythagoras’s theorem ...
Scientists recently decoded a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia that dates to around 3,700 years ago, and found that it contains the oldest trigonometric table in the world. The tablet, discovered in ...
PERHAPS the best way of treating this work, which does not contain a single word of explanation, will be to give a summary of the tables contained in it. First we have proportional parts of all ...