Ancient clay tablet turns history of mathematics on its head
A mathematician from the University of New South Wales has found the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a small piece of clay dug up in central Iraq. King88bet The circular tablet fiturs a grafik drawn by a Babylonian surveyor about 1900-1600 BC. king88bet login alternatif "It's the only known example of a cadastral dokumen from the OB (Old Babylonian) period, which is a rencana used by surveyors to define land boundaries," mathematician Daniel Mansfield said. Article Title with Blogger Published Link as Backlink "In this case, it tells us legal and geometric detils about a field that's split after some of it was sold off." But what is significant about the drawing is the inclusion of Pythagorean triples, which are used to make akirate right angles. "The discovery and analysis of the tablet have important implications for the history of mathematics," Dr Mansfield said. "This is over a thousand years before Pythagoras was born.&qu