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9325219 No.9325219 [Reply] [Original]

I saw this article about trigonometry. It is older than the works of Greek mathematicians. Are the ancient Greeks a meme? What if they are the only ones remembered. And other greater minds having existed being forgotten?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/24/3700-year-old-babylonian-tablet-rewrites-history-maths-could/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw#

>> No.9325239

>>9325219
This "discovery" is a bit of a meme.
Nobody doubts that people before Greeks studied some trigonometry (mostly to fairly divide land plots), and the babylonians might have gone a small bit further than egyptians, but they found a single tablet. Not much is there.

The Greeks are still the first known to systematically study trigonometry, and in fact highly abstracted.
It's highly unlikely that the Babylonians or anyone else before went very far.

>> No.9325345

>>9325219
cicada 3301 nye'

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9325377

>>9325219
I'm sure there's been a shit load of technology and knowledge that has been completely lost. Just look at myth and legend. Everything from various "gods" to shit like Atlantis can be explained with modern technology. Who really knows how old those myths and legends are? Civilization maybe extremely old and we simply have lost everything so many times it isn't funny anymore.

>> No.9325385

its just wildberger projecting his rational trigonometry to old ass stone tablets that could be erosion marks or whatever

>> No.9325403

This "discovery" is at least 10 years old. You can thank Wildburger for making it sound new by pretending he deciphered it in a video where he read the Wikipedia article.