Math historian Glen Van Brummelen came across decimal points in Giovanni Bianchini's manuscript, Tabulae primi mobilis B. Van Brummelen / Historia Mathematica, 2024 For years, historians thought ...

Now, however, the decimal point has been discovered to have been used 150 years prior, by a Venetian merchant, according to a new paper in the journal Historia Mathematica.

A long-debated tablet known as Plimpton 332, featuring 3,700-year-old scrawls from a Mesopotamian scribe, is the subject of a new study in the journal Historia Mathematica this week.

His paper, co-authored with UNSW Associate Professor Norman Wildberger, was published in Historia Mathematica.

Our new research, published in Historia Mathematica, shows that the Babylonians were able to construct a trigonometric table using only the exact ratios of sides of a right-angled triangle.

David E. Rowe studied mathematics and the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, and took a second doctorate in history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He served ...

Writing in the journal Historia Mathematica, they argue the tablet was meant to be completed with 38 rows of numbers.

The discovery, published in the journal Historia Mathematica, reveals that the Babylonians – not the Greeks – were the first to understand and use trigonometry.

Daniel Mansfield and Norman Wildberger from the University of New South Wales in Australia defended this hypothesis by reanalyzing the cuneiform inscription on the Plimpton 322 tablet, now part of the ...

The results are published in Historia Mathematica. “It’s a very nice discovery,” says José Chabás, a historian of astronomy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.