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Babylonians May Have Discovered Trigonometry 1,500 Years Before the Greeks Invented It
An Australian mathematician has discovered that Babylonians may have used applied geometry roughly 1,500 years before the Greeks supposedly invented its foundations, according to a new study published in the Foundations of Science journal this month.
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Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras
The ancient Babylonians understood key concepts in geometry, including how to make precise right-angled triangles. They used this mathematical know-how to divide up farmland – more than 1000 years before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, with whom these ideas are associated.
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Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
Old Babylonian tablet likely used for surveying uses Pythagorean triples at least 1,000 years before Pythagoras
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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
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The Discovery That Transformed Pi
For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game.
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Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen
Pushing the boundaries of math requires great minds to pose fascinating problems. What if a machine could do it? Now, scientists created one that can. A good conjecture has something like a magnetic pull for the mind of a mathematician. At its best, a mathematical conjecture states something extremely profound in an extremely precise and succinct way, crying out for proof or disproof.
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AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve
Algorithm named after mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan suggests interesting formulae, some of which are difficult to prove true.
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Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
John Conway, Ronald Graham, and Freeman Dyson all explored the world with their minds.
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An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26 Million
How Jerry Selbee thrived with a simple algebraic solution.
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How Many Ounces in a Gallon? You Need to Know - Mr Delu Official
How many ounces in a gallon will be discussed in detail, and Liter, fluid Ounces, US Liquid Quart, 'Flow Oz' ,US gill, cup, pint, ml, Foot etc
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'Universal law of touch' will enable new advances in virtual reality
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team, led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. The results are published in Science Advances.
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How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)
Our current pandemic is not a first excursion into remote learning. Many may know of the origins story of calculus, born over Isaac Newton’s retreat to the countryside from Cambridge University dur…
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A Physicist Has Come Up With Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.
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UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia
Martin Hairer takes $3m Breakthrough prize for work a colleague said must have been done by aliens
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The remarkable ways animals understand numbers
Humans as a species are adept at using numbers, but our mathematical ability is something we share with a surprising array of other creatures.
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Is Maths Real? That's Actually a Much Smarter Question Than You Might Think
While filming herself getting ready for work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question: "How could someone come up with a concept like algebra?"
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Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths
MIP* = RE is not a typo. It is a groundbreaking discovery and the catchy title of a recent paper in the field of quantum complexity theory. Complexity theory is a zoo of “complexity classes” – collections of computational problems – of which MIP* and RE are but two.
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Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply | Quanta Magazine
By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.
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In a Fascinating Twist, Animals That Do Math Also Understand More Language Than We Think
It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human superiority are sometimes used to justify the ways we treat other animals,
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