Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Babylonians beat Greeks to the Invention of Trigonometry


It used to be the standard notion that the Babylonians just employed rules of thumb based on trial and error, but modern research continues to reveal more and more about how the Babylonians rather than the Greeks pioneered much modern mathematics. Read about how the Babylonians beat the Greeks to the invention of trigonometry...



Mathematical mystery of ancient Babylonian clay tablet solved

A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, most likely used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces, temples and stepped...


  
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit...
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2005-09-trigonometry.html#jCp
New trigonometry is a sign of the times 

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