[ClearCase_guy]

Apparently, the Egyptians got there before Isaac. He did say, you know: "If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Egyptians." Or something like that.

I think it's interesting that the ancient Egyptians spoke Latin. Naming "aha calculus" after a pharoah is cool, but "calculus"?

calculus (1666), from L. calculus "reckoning, account," originally "pebble used in counting," dim. of calx (gen. calcis) "limestone." Modern mathematical sense is a shortening of differential calculus.

Those Egyptians were waaaaaay ahead of their time.

[SeanOGuano]

I was also taught that the Egyptians invented beer. However, I went to Beer Camp at the Oldenburg Brewery in Fort Mitchell, KY and they told us that the Mesopotamians invented it.