Plimpton 322, the tablet in question, is certainly an alluring artifact. It’s a broken piece of clay roughly the size of a postcard. It was filled with four columns of cuneiform numbers around 1800 ...

The ancient Babylonians – who lived from about 4,000BCE in what is now Iraq – had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more accurate than the conventional ...

THERE are a few novel points in this book. Logarithms and their use in computations are dealt with in the first chapter, and most of the exercises are of a character which will lead the student to see ...