A University of New South Wales, Sydney mathematician has discovered the oldest example of applied geometry ever recorded, the university’s newsroom reports . The tablet illustrates the use of Pythagorean triples in dividing land, 1,100 years before the geometric principle was recorded by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. On a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet map recovered in Iraq… Continue reading Mathematician Finds Pythagorean Triples On Ancient Babylonian Tablet
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