(CN) – An ancient tablet originally discovered by the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones offers insight into the advanced mathematical understanding of the Babylonians, according to a new study.

Sydney, Aug 25 (IANS) Babylonians were the pioneers of trigonometry — the study of triangles — and they trumped the Greeks by 1,000 years, revealed an analysis of a 3,700-year-old mathematical clay ...

In the 1930s, a mathematician by the name of Nicolas Bourbaki was said to frequent the Café Capoulade in Paris, a haven for artists and intellectuals near Luxembourg Gardens. There he wrote an ...

Trigonometry Formulas: There are very few topics in mathematics that trouble students more than trigonometry and calculus. In fact, it is the base of many advanced math concepts and is also utilized ...

Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers At least 1,000 years before the Greek ...

For nearly 100 years, the mysterious tablet has been referred to as Plimpton 322. It was first discovered in Iraq in the early 1900s by Edgar Banks, the American archaeologist on which the character ...

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Trigonometry close trigonometryThe study of sides and angles in triangles. can be used to find a missing angle in a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. An understanding of the three ...

Trigonometry can be used to find the length of a side in a triangle. Trigonometry close trigonometryThe study of sides and angles in triangles. can be used to find a missing side in a right-angled ...

Case study based questions are new for class 10 students. Therefore, it is quite essential that students practice with more of such questions so that they do not have problem in solving them in their ...