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 ...

Daniel Mansfield with the Plimpton 322 Babylonian clay tablet in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York. (Image courtesy UNSW/Andrew Kelly) The translation on the ...

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 ...

The purpose of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet has finally been revealed. As it turns out, it was an ancient trigonometric table that the Babylonians used, beating the Greeks by more than a ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --The ancient Babylonians - who lived from about 4,000 BCE in what is now Iraq - had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more accurate than ...

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, ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet discovered by the real Indiana Jones has been revealed as the world’s oldest — and most accurate — trigonometric table. Mathematicians believe that the tablet, ...

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, ...

The true significance of a 3,700-year-old clay tablet discovered by the real life Indiana Jones has only now been revealed THIS 3,700-year-old clay tablet was likely used by ancient Babylonians to ...

A new interpretation into the nature of an ancient clay tablet known as Plimpton 322 claims that ancient Babylonians might have developed an advanced form of trigonometry — long before Greek ...

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 ...

Trigonometry is the branch of mathematics that explains the relationship between sides and angles of a triangle. In a right angled triangle the three sides are perpendicular, base and hypotenuse, as ...