On the other hand, Gauss was interested in the theory of parallels from at least 1799; and some time between 1808 and 1816 he arrived at the belief that non-Euclidean geometry was possibly true ...

3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Clay Tablet Upends History of Mathematics Long before Pythagoras and his triangles, an ancient Babylonian was etching geometry in clay.

Description: Incidence geometry in planes and space, separation in planes and space, angular measure, neutral geometry, history of the parallel postulate, Euclidean geometry of the plane and space, ...

Rewriting the history of mathematics: Oldest example of applied geometry is discovered on a 3,700-year-old clay tablet using maths attributed to Pythagoras 1,000 years LATER The tablet was first ...

And learning history, geometry and art were the goals Mayer put forth when she applied for an education grant to cover costs of the project, which she titled, “Sampler Quilt Geometry ...