Math as myth
This might be the best introduction to an academic paper I’ve come across. From Roger Myerson’s Fundamentals of Social Choice Theory:
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Mathematical history and cultural development
Read more → More from Duly Noted →So I’m watching my way through this pop math YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown and out of nowhere comes this extraordinarily fascinating fact: the ancient Babylonians circa 1800 BC probably (possibly?) knew the Pythagorean theorem and were generating Pythagorean triplets: