The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. The Babylonian-era tablet lists Pythagorean triples. (CN) — A 3,700-year-old clay tablet contains a curious list of Pythagorean ...
He went around the world looking for examples of how the Babylonians might have used what the mathematician calls 'proto-trigonometry' in surveying. The 3,700-year-old tablet sitting in an Istanbul ...