The Babylonian Theorem Jean-Jacques Rousseau Revised and Updated

Revised and Updated

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The Babylonian Theorem Jean-Jacques Rousseau Revised and UpdatedIn this sequel to his award winning "How Mathematics Happened", physicist Peter S Rudman explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians, showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE used visualisations of how plane geometric figures could be partitioned into squares, rectangles, and right triangles to invent geometric algebra, even solving problems that we now do by quadratic algebra. Using illustrations adapted