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IM 67118, also known as Db 2-146, is an Old Babylonian clay tablet in the collection of the Iraq Museum that contains the solution to a problem in plane geometry concerning a rectangle with given area and diagonal.
For instance, line 1 of the table can be interpreted as describing a triangle with short side 119 and hypotenuse 169, implying long side =, which is a regular number (2 3 ·3·5). The number in Column 1 is either (169/120) 2 or (119/120) 2 .
260 BC – Archimedes proved that the value of π lies between 3 + 1/7 (approx. 3.1429) and 3 + 10/71 (approx. 3.1408), that the area of a circle was equal to π multiplied by the square of the radius of the circle and that the area enclosed by a parabola and a straight line is 4/3 multiplied by the area of a triangle with equal base and height ...
The oldest known record comes from Plimpton 322, a Babylonian clay tablet from about 1800 BC, written in a sexagesimal number system. [2] When searching for integer solutions, the equation a 2 + b 2 = c 2 is a Diophantine equation. Thus Pythagorean triples are among the oldest known solutions of a nonlinear Diophantine equation.
Archaeological evidence of the altar constructions described in the Shulba Sutras is sparse. A large falcon-shaped fire altar (śyenaciti), dating to the second century BCE, was found in the, 1957-59, excavations by G. R. Sharma at Kausambi, [9] but this altar does not conform to the dimensions prescribed by the Shulba Sutras. [3] [10]
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100. The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5. [58] In the 3rd century BC, the premier center of mathematical education and research was the Musaeum of Alexandria. [59]
World's oldest cheese found on ancient Chinese mummies. Mithil Aggarwal. September 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM. A mummy from the Xiaohe Cemetery, with dairy remains scattered around the mummy’s neck.
Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was credited with many mathematical and scientific discoveries, including the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean tuning, the five regular solids, the Theory of Proportions, the sphericity of the Earth, and the identity of the morning and evening stars as the planet Venus.