Pre Greeks
General Talk (Prof. Robin Wilson, Gresham College)
Egypt
1) High Resolution Images: Rhind Papyrus (~1650 BC), with the famous 2/n table, and Moscow Papyrus (~1850 BC), with hieratic text
2) Egyptian Multiplication explained by Prof. M. Schneider
3) Building the great pyramid (~2560 BC), theory proposed by Jean-Pierre Houdin
4) High Resolution Image: Eye of Horus, Louvre
Babylonia
5) High Resolution Image: YBC7289 (famous tablet related to square root of 2, ~1700 BC)
6) Babylonian Mathematics by Prof. David Neiman
7) Documentary, Hanging Gardens (6th century BC), BBC
8) High Resolution Image: Plimpton 322 (~1800 BC), Pythagorean triples (from Cuneiform Digital Library)
9) Documentary, Plimpton 322 (several institutions)
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