Maths

Enrichment

Ancient Mathematics of Babylon Unlocked

Geoff Riley

28th August 2017

Enrichment reading on what is perhaps the world's oldest trigonometric table!

1,000 years before Pythagoras, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table perhaps more accurate than any today.

More than 1000 years before the Greeks, Babylonians were researching the mathematical study of triangles. 📻https://t.co/BU6HWZ1wq8
— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) August 26, 2017

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.

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