Learn about why it’s hard to save money for our future; how Babylonians knew the Pythagorean theorem; and situs inversus.

It's hard to save money because we see our future selves as strangers by Steffie Drucker

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Did the ancient Babylonians discover the Pythagorean theorem before Pythagoras did? by Briana Brownell

• Calabretto, S. (2021, August 13). A new angle on ancient trigonometry. Cosmos Magazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/mathematics/babylonian-tablet-trigonometry-pythagorean-triplets/
• Plimpton 322. (2021). Math.ubc.ca. https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m446-03/pl322/pl322.html
• Mansfield, D. F., & Wildberger, N. J. (2017). Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry. Historia Mathematica, 44(4), 395–419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2017.08.001
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