Mathematical  Culture and Thought

Mathematical Culture and Thought

Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

Document Type : Translation

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This article is an exposition, detailed but not too technical, of the work of Otto Neugebauer and Abraham Sachs, mainly on the Plimpton 322 tablet from Columbia University, which is apparently a table of slopes of right triangles.
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Buck, R. Creighton, Sherlock Holmes in Babylon, Amer. Math. Monthly, 87(1980), no.5, 335–345.