Trigonometry discovered to have come from Babylonians 1500 years before the Greeks (1 Viewer)

[tywebb]

The origins of trigonometry is usually attributed to Hipparchus.

Two mathematicians from UNSW have discovered that trigonometry came from Babylonians 1500 years earlier.

Here is The Telegraph article on it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...bylonian-tablet-rewrites-history-maths-could/

Here is the more thorough research article in Historia Mathematica:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300691

 

[He-Mann]

Re: Trigonometry discovered to have come from Babylonians 1500 years before the Greek

Go UNSW!!