A fresh study of the Babylonian tablet known as Plimpton 322 – discovered some 100 years back - shows that the ancient Babylonians, ... Babylonians had mastered trig 1,500 years before Pythagoras.

A 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet reveals an ancient method of constructing right-angled triangles that makes it the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table.

The Ancient Babylonians knew about a form of trigonometry more advanced than the modern-day version – about 1,000 years before its supposed invention by the Ancient Greeks, academics in ...

This was published 3 years ago. Trigonometry 1000 years before Pythagoras: Mathematician uncovers Mesopotamian secrets. ... “For instance, this is over a thousand years before Pythagoras was born.