Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, remembered his past lives, and saw the soul as deeply connected to the cosmos.

(CNN) -- Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.

a 2 + b 2 = c 2. Remember that from high school math class? That's the Pythagorean theorem, which shows that in a right triangle, where the shorter legs are a and b, the sum of their squares is equal ...

The most important theorem we learnt in childhood carries the name of a Greek philosopher, but not necessarily the legacy.

Most every kid learns a² + b² = c² in math. Pythagoras, right? Wrong. Babylonians used trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks. Time to rewrite history? This unassuming clay tablet may yet turn the ...

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Do you remember the Pythagoras Theorem, which you once studied in Mathematics, was a discovery of Pythagoras? In today’s time, people often wonder when Pythagoras was born, his full name, and his ...

Chances are that if you attended school between the ages of 12 and 15 you learned the Pythagorean Theorem. Even if you happily left geometry in the rearview mirror decades ago you can probably still ...

The exhibition of 13 ancient Babylonian tablets, titled ‘Before Pythagoras” The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics’, opened at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World ...