Here’s how it works. A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has revealed that the ancient Babylonians understood the Pythagorean theorem more than 1,000 years before the birth of the Greek philosopher ...

He wrote: 'There is concrete (not Portland cement, but a clay tablet) evidence that indisputably indicates that the Pythagorean Theorem was discovered and proven by Babylonian mathematicians ...

Translating the markings from base 60 – the counting system used by ancient Babylonians – showed that these ancient mathematicians were aware of the Pythagorean theorem (not called that ...

But the Pythagorean theorem blew a big hole in that notion ... Clay tablets found in what is now central Iraq show that Babylonian mathematicians were aware of the basics of the famous theorem at ...

The Pythagorean Theorem (a2 + b2 = c2 ... According to UCLA's computer science department, scholars in ancient Babylon and Egypt knew of the theorem and it was displayed on a 4000-year-old ...

Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson ...

Translating the markings from base 60 – the counting system used by ancient Babylonians – showed that these ancient mathematicians were aware of the Pythagorean theorem (not called that ...