Almost looks like a Babylon Bee headline.
Just because something bares a name doesn’t mean that person”invented” it. The math was always there and when you first realize how elegant it is broken in to 3 4 5 it makes sense that it has been used in architecture since we first started stacking rocks. You can make an amazing amount of structure with some string, a rock, and a couple straight sticks.
The ancient realtors wanted to get their commission and needed accurate land surveys for the parcel being sold off. Follow the money!
We must reject mathematics that gives correct answers since it was invented by white people. LOL
Curious, what people that are alive today descended from the Babylonians?
It just goes to show that if a woman feels like she’s being cheated, she will go to any length to prove it.
History of Mathematics was one of my favorite courses in undergrad. Highly recommend reading up on it you haven’t already. Of course, I assume it’s now a “woke” subject like everything else, so one probably has to go with older texts to get the truth.
ADAM had the mind of CHRIST.
It makes sense that the generations that followed ADAM were of high intellect, but their minds degenerated over time because of the fall.
There is nothing new under the sun.
But maths is racist!
As Spock would say...
I remember when BC was standard, not this BCE.
Ping-a-ling
This very poorly written article does not make the case at all for the headline’s assertion.
This is just like telescopes, microscopes, and eyeglasses all of which were known to the ancient world, lost, then rediscovered hundreds or thousands of years later.
Such is real science. In REAL science, new ideas start as an hypothesis. Hypotheses are subject to the skepticisms of other REAL scientists who test their conditions. Ones that survive this testing can become theories. Such was the idea of Pythagoras. Further intense scrutiny and testing can allow some theories to become Laws. A single repeatable test can prove a thousand successes wrong. Few theories survive this scrutiny. Remember that Newton's Law of Gravity survived several centuries before it was proven inaccurate.
Yet now a few arrogant bureaucrats have determined that Catastrophic Global Warming is true science, and that Masks and Vaccines are true science. Their arrogance is eclipsed only by their ignorance.
Much of the 2 millenium babylonian science and literature is inherited from the Sumerians. They ruled in southern Iraq for nearly 2 millenium from roughly 4kbc to roughly 2kbc. Abraham the father of three religions...left Ur —one of the main cities of Sumer —at the time of the their final collapse in roughly 2k bc. the subsequent civilizations in the region merely copied the work of the sumerians in the same way that the romans copied the work of the greeks. Stories in Genesis have their echos in stories told by the sumerians—as does do the calendars of the ancient hebrews.
To this day Moslems tend to believe that adam and eve came from space. Why? The story of adam and eve has its echoes in ancient sumerian myths. The tales told by the sumerians seem to suggest that people came from space. It really reads like science fiction. This space origin of higher beings is given as an explanation for the invention of all the things that made the sumerian civilzation work for so long. However, it also suggests that there was a creative period early on that produced all the maths and sciences that enabled all the inventions of the period. But that period ended and a 1000 years later people were doing things by rote. That is, they did things because their fathers, grandfathers great grandfathers and beyond had done them that way. They had no idea how or why they came by the inventions that barbaric peoples marveled. So they said the inventions came from space beings.
I’m on online facebook threads where fans of elon musk will say the same thing of musk. He came from space. no mere human could perform his miracles. I saw a utube of Musk giving an interview in one of the gulf countries 5 years ago. The interviewer asked Musk about aliens coming to earth. Musk said that in about 20 years the civilization of earth will appear to be an alien civilization.
There was a roughly 600 year period from 500 BC to 100 AD where the greco roman world experienced high creativity and then high creativity ended. High creative activity restarted again roughly around 1500 AD and continues through to this day.
But an earlier high creative period of probably the same length likely happened in Sumeria back in the 4th millenium BC. Then that period ended. That creative period sustained Sumeria for a millenium or more —or long after the Sumerians no longer understood how or why they came by the tools and inventions they came by.
An interesting thing to note about Musk is that he has a sense that the high creative period of western civilation is coming to an end. Therefor he says that people must do everything they can do to shorten the period of the coming dark age.
Unfortunately my parents weren't very happy with the resultant "D" on my report card......
Sneaking in a musical Babylon/Mesopotamia reference here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLfbu7NzBWI
It’s the B-52s doing an awesome live performance of their song Mesopotamia. Pretty different from their usual stuff.
Some ping interesting.