#ancient mathematics

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[cosmicportal]

"The universe is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures"

~ Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore

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1600’s Persia

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The current (2024-7-23) first-link chain on Wikipedia containing mathematics goes

Mathematics -> Theory -> Reason -> Logic -> Logical reasoning -> Logical consequence -> Concept -> Abstraction -> Rule of inference -> Philosophy of logic -> Philosophy -> Existence -> Reality -> Universe -> Space -> Three-dimensional space -> Geometry -> Mathematics

and I think that's delightful.

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[alphaengineering]

The Founders☪️⭕️

By:

Mahmoud al-Jaghmini

[mpicabo]

Continuing on with Ancient Greek inspired Pokemon fanart (GrecoMon?), here is a line based on porygon I’m calling pythagoron! Their evolutionary line is built on higher dimensions, with the first stage being a 2D diagram of shapes composed of straight lines written on papyrus (excluding its circular eye), and the second stage being built entirely from three dimensional shapes with curved surfaces excluding its 2D circular eye. The third stage is based on a 4D object called a Klein bottle as the head, with a fractal inspired by the Mandelbrot set as the body!

[intothestacks]

Missing ancient manuscripts written by famous mathematician discovered by scientists https://www.aol.com/missing-ancient-manuscripts-written-famous-220520985.html

[shematria]

This genocidal war in Gaza demonstrates the chaos that can result from misinterpretations of the Bible. The fundamental ideology of Religious Zionism needs to be confronted as a misrepresentation of Torah.

[quackityquackquackquack]

If you got problems with trigonometry I feel bad for you son

I got ((3/(cos^2x+sin^2x)))^4+(((7(cos^2x+sin^2x)))+(11/(cos^2x+sin^2x))) problems and trigonometry ain't one

[cosmicportal]

When swimming through water, the snake leaves traces in the form of wavy circles, which exactly correspond to the dynamics of the shape of prime numbers.

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive factors other than 1 and itself. Prime numbers are specific numbers.

Don Zagier, a distinguished expert, said: “Looking at these figures, one feels the presence of one of the inexplicable mysteries of creation.

The images you see here are created using circles with diameters of successive primes, superimposed on each other and repeated from a common source. For each natural number "n" we draw a periodic curve from the origin intersecting the "x" axis in "n" and its multiples. Prime numbers are those that are intersected by just two curves: the prime number itself and one.

This is a simple method of constructing prime numbers using geometry.

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Hey guys, you will not BELIEVE what I just found

This site. Has free courses. On E VE R Y T H I N G

I could now, feasibly, learn E V E R Y T H I N G

I can not begin to describe how excited I am right now

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Headcanon that popped in the shower was that Ratio did have white hair or looked more like Alhaitham, but he just had a teen fallout with him through different ideologies and dyed his hair blue, (prob changed his LN out of spite) to not be assosiated with him, the phase is gone but he likes his dyed hair as it is so it hasnt changed much.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Papyrus of Ahmose or Mathematical Rhind (1500 BC / 1550 BC) is the oldest manuscript written in Algebra and Trigonometry.

Manuscript shows that Egyptians used first-order equations and solved them in several ways.

They know quadratic equations and solve them. They also know numerical and geometric sequences and know quadratic equations like two :

X2 + y2 = 100,

Y = 3/4 x, where x = 8, y = 6,

This equation is the origin of Pythagoras theorem, a2 = b 2 + c 2, and Egyptians used to call unknown number (koom).

Pythagoras developed his mathematical theories after travelling to Egypt and learning from Egyptian priests.

This has been proven in books of Greek historians and scholars such as Farpharius of Sour, Herodotus, and Thales.

Egyptians had Algebra, Trigonometry, and Geometry about 2000 years before the birth of Pythagoras and about 3000 years prior to al-Khwarizmi being born.

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The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP; also designated as papyrus British Museum 10057 and pBM 10058) is one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian mathematics.

It is named after Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scottish antiquarian, who purchased the papyrus in 1858 in Luxor, Egypt.

It was apparently found during illegal excavations in or near the Ramesseum. It dates to around 1550 BC.

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Sorry, Pythagoras! This 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet(IM 67118) proves the ‘Pythagorean’ theorem was already old math by the time he was born. Ancient scribes were solving for *c²* while Greece was still in the Bronze Age! Babylonians’ 60-based system still rules our clocks (60 mins) and circles (360°)—talk about lasting influence!

In 1770 BCE, a Babylonian teacher pressed a reed into wet clay to demonstrate how to calculate a rectangle’s diagonal using what we now call the Pythagorean theorem(a² + b² = c²). The tablet, unearthed in Iraq, includes step-by-step base-60 math—proving Mesopotamians used the formula 1,000 years before Pythagoras drew his first triangle.

Even earlier, the Plimpton 322 tablet (c. 1800 BCE) lists Pythagorean triples (like 3-4-5) in neat cuneiform, suggesting it was a *textbook* for advanced students. How’s that for ancient STEM?