Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

DOI10.2307/2321200MaRDI QIDQ3874142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Creighton Buck

Publication date 1980

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2321200

zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

Cited in

(4)

• The Oldest Trig in the Book
• Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry
• Plimpton 322: a review and a different perspective
• Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: A reassessment of Plimpton 322

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