IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have ...

Babylonian mathematics may have been out of fashion for more than 3000 years, but it has possible practical applications in surveying, computer graphics and education.

A COMPREHENSIVE work on Babylonian mathematics in English has long been wanted. Apart from a few isolated articles in periodicals, the only material available hitherto was in German. The texts ...

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we ...

Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 will make studying maths easier, mathematician says. Share. ... "After 3,000 years, Babylonian mathematics might just be coming back into fashion." ...

A remarkable selection of Old Babylonian tablets at New York University shows how sophisticated the society’s mathematics was and how many similarities to later Western systems existed.

Babylonian mathematics was notably advanced for its time. They employed a base-60 number system, a vestige of which persists ...

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

He is co-curator of "Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics," an exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York.