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2021-08-06 Science & Technology

Rewriting the history of mathematics: Oldest example of applied geometry is discovered on a 3,700-year-old clay tablet using maths attributed to Pythagoras 1,000 years LATER

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Wow, good find Skid.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-06 04:01|| 2021-08-06 04:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The jurno who wrote this should've checked with Wikipedia before committing his "thoughts" to paper.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-06 04:30|| 2021-08-06 04:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The latest person who wanted to restore Babylon, the people behind the tablet was Saddam Hussein, taken out by the US whose forces set up camp on top of the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-06 05:30|| 2021-08-06 05:30|| Front Page Top

Another Clay Tablet

Posted by Slereque Cleger7662 2021-08-06 05:52|| 2021-08-06 05:52|| Front Page Top

#5

I often wonder how much historical knowledge has been lost because some IQ hampered person stumbled over it, saw it and discarded it.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-06 08:38|| 2021-08-06 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Did people walk around in busy souks staring at these things ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-06 09:34|| 2021-08-06 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Nah, nothing to see here,
its just another piece of recorded history.
Piff, if it ain't on Youtube, FB or Twitter,
its not important. sarc/

Posted by Spanky Lumumba5573 2021-08-06 09:47|| 2021-08-06 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I think similar concepts of mathematics must have dawned in similar degrees on men at more or less the same level of civilizational progress, no? On account of them all having ten fingers?

Prob'ly why the Philistines never discovered jack shit...

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-06 10:16|| 2021-08-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Hmmm,according to my watch, it's almost time for lunch... so the Pythagorean Theory can wait.

Posted by Elmeger Chains2396 2021-08-06 10:39|| 2021-08-06 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder how many PDAs ended up in a land fill?

Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-06 11:46|| 2021-08-06 11:46|| Front Page Top

#11 BLUF: "Everything is old until it is new again."

Posted by ed in texas 2021-08-06 12:07|| 2021-08-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#12 During the 1800s and early 1900s, western museums collected clay tablets like mad -- because the countries of origin didn't give a rat's ass. The result was HUGE collections of untranslated tablets that scholars are just now working through.

Over on YouTube there are great videos featuring Irving Finkel, who's working through the British Museum's collection.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-08-06 12:56|| 2021-08-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Folks were building some pretty amazing (for the time, anyway) buildings and monuments 4,000+ years ago (we won't discuss any Creationists' beliefs) and somewhere along the line their builders must have figured out the various concepts of Geometry to do so.

Pythagoras might have only been codifying what was already known.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-06 14:10|| 2021-08-06 14:10|| Front Page Top

#14 All of this cries out for a multi-year Gov't funded, multi-million dollar Paythagoras research grant.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-06 14:15|| 2021-08-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#15 ^^^^
Ooooh, Oooooh pick us ....

Posted by Cleater Sneper3177 2021-08-06 18:23|| 2021-08-06 18:23|| Front Page Top

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