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 ...
A UNSW mathematician has revealed the origins of applied geometry on a 3700-year-old clay tablet that has been hiding in plain sight in a museum in Istanbul for over a century. The tablet – known as ...
UNSW Sydney scientist Dr. Daniel Mansfield with the 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York. (UNSW/Andrew Kelly) Sign ...
Dr. Daniel Mansfield, University of New South Wales (IMAGE) University of New South Wales Caption UNSW Sydney scientist Dr. Daniel Mansfield with the 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at ...
A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...
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