People
Greek
Which civilization does du Sautoy refer to as "clever colonists"
Sumer is known as
What is the Cradle of Civilization?
The Golden Ratio
What mathematical concept might be hidden in the proportions of the pyramids?
a^2+b^2=c^2
Plimpton 322 suggests that the Babylonians knew which formula centuries before the Greeks?
Loaves of Bread
What material does du Sautoy divide to show how the Egyptian divide 9 by 10?
The power of binary
What did Egyptians understand 3,000 years before Leibniz?
Alexandria
Du Sautoy discusses the liberty in which famous city?
No concept of place value
What is the fundamental flaw in the Egyptian number system?
Quadratic Equations
The need to calculate land areas gave rise to which of the greatest legacies of Babylonian Mathematics?
A T-Shirt
While in the market, on what object does Professor du Sautoy find the Egyptian number system?
irrational numbers
Pythagoras swore his sect to secrecy over the discovery of what kind of numbers?
Romans
Which culture was less smitten with the beauty of mathematics?
A rope with knots tied on it
What object did the Egyptians use to get perfect right angles in their buildings?
Sphere
What solid object did Archimedes partition with infinite slices as to find its volume?
A version of Bachgammon
The Babylonians and their descendants have been playing which game for nearly 5000 years?
Plato
Which famous Greek philosopher considered mathematics the bedrock of all knowledge?
Lunar Eclipses
From about the 800 B.C, The Babylonians had complete lists of what astrological phenomena?
60 (sexegesimal)
What is the Sumerian/ Babylonian number system base?
Rhind Papyrus
Egyptian Papyrus that contains instructions for arithmetic and geometry
Scribe Records
Clay tablets of what unlikely relics give us insight into how Babylonians approached mathematics