{"id":183759,"date":"2024-02-26T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/this-3700-year-old-tablet-shows-the-oldest-known-example-of-applied-geometry"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:23:59","slug":"this-3700-year-old-tablet-shows-the-oldest-known-example-of-applied-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/this-3700-year-old-tablet-shows-the-oldest-known-example-of-applied-geometry","title":{"rendered":"This 3,700-Year-Old Tablet Shows The Oldest Known Example of Applied Geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-3700-year-old-tablet-shows-the-oldest-known-example-of-applied-geometry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cira 2021: An ancient fragment of clay tablet dating back to 3,700 years ago, during the Old Babylonian period, contains what is now the oldest known example of applied geometry, a mathematician has discovered. That\u2019s more than a millennium prior to the birth of Pythagoras.<\/p>\n<p>And this history-altering artifact, known as Si.427, had just been sitting in a museum in Istanbul for more than 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSi.427 dates from the Old Babylonian (OB) period \u2014 1900 to 1,600 BCE,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/923620\">said mathematician Daniel Mansfield<\/a> of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cira 2021: An ancient fragment of clay tablet dating back to 3,700 years ago, during the Old Babylonian period, contains what is now the oldest known example of applied geometry, a mathematician has discovered. That\u2019s more than a millennium prior to the birth of Pythagoras. And this history-altering artifact, known as Si.427, had just been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}