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Mathematicians Crack Mystery of Babylonian Clay Tablet ‘Plimpton 322’

Plimpton 322, a 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet held in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York.
Aug 25, 2017 by News Staff

Plimpton 322, the most famous of Old Babylonian tablets (1900-1600 BC), is the world’s oldest trigonometric table, possibly used by Babylonian scholars to calculate how to construct stepped pyramids, palaces and temples, according to a duo of researchers from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Plimpton 322, a 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet held in the Rare Book and Manuscript...

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Prof. Hales demonstrates his solution to the Kepler conjecture. Image credit: Bob Kalmbach / University of Michigan.

Scientists Deliver Formal Proof of Famous Kepler Conjecture

Jun 16, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of mathematicians led by University of Pittsburgh Professor Thomas Hales has delivered a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture, a...

The best possible q-analogs of codes may be useful in more efficient data transmission. Image credit: Geralt.

Mathematical Breakthrough Could Lead to More Efficient Data Transmission

Nov 14, 2016 by News Staff

The best possible q-analogs of codes may be useful in more efficient data transmission. Image credit: Geralt. More than three decades ago, mathematicians...

The Relative Citation Ratio is article level and field independent and provides an alternative to the invalid practice of using journal impact factors to identify influential papers. Image credit: Unsplash.

Relative Citation Ratio: New Metric Measures Influence of Scientific Research

Sep 8, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the National Institute of Health led by George Santangelo has developed a new article-level metric: the Relative Citation Ratio. The...

Dresden Codex Venus Table Reveals Ancient Mayans Made Major Discovery in Astronomy, Math

Aug 17, 2016 by News Staff

The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, first panel on left, and the first three pages of the Table. Image credit: University of California,...

The Airy meridian marked as the ‘Prime Meridian of the World’ (dotted line), and the modern reference meridian indicating zero longitude using GPS (solid line). Image credit: Google Maps / Infoterra Ltd. / Bluesky.

Scientists Explain Why Greenwich Prime Meridian Moved

Aug 12, 2015 by News Staff

The ‘Prime Meridian’ that’s been running through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, UK, since 1884 is now located 335 feet (102 meters) east of...

A figure from the original report by Enrico Fermi et al.

Mathematicians Partially Solve Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

Mar 23, 2015 by News Staff

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem – first introduced in 1955 by the famed physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues – has now been partially solved...

Lobes of the human cerebrum

Researchers Try to Explain How Brain Works

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...

Study Reveals What Social Networks May Know About Non-Members

May 2, 2012 by News Staff

A team of German scientists has revealed what online social networks on the internet may know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user...

Mathematicians Produce First-Ever Image of Flat Torus in 3D

Apr 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of mathematicians and computer scientists led by Dr. Vincent Borrelli of the Université Lyon I in France has succeeded for the first time in constructing...

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