A Sydney-based scientist’s “detective” work has revealed the origins of applied geometry with ancient Babylonians having developed their own kind of trigonometry before Greeks.
Dr Daniel Mansfield from UNSW Science’s School of Mathematics and Statistics showed the answer was hiding in plain sight in a museum in Istanbul for over a century in a 3700-year-old clay tablet.
The tablet proves Pythagorean triples were used 1,000 years before ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was born.
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