The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid
By Peter S. Rudman
By Peter S. Rudman
Web edition: May 21, 2010
Print edition: June 5, 2010; Vol.177 #12 (p. 28)
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The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid by Peter S. Rudman
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Ancient Babylonians and Egyptians paved the way for Greek mathematicians, a physicist contends.
Prometheus Books, 2010, 248 p., $26.
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