Talk:Babylonian mathematics

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Close to B+/GA: sections which refer to subarticles should summarize the content of the subarticles. Geometry guy 20:05, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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Part of this article seems to copied from http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics.html

[edit] Critique on the use of algebra for explanations

Using algebra to explain how babylonians did math suggests they set up equalities and derived new equations from old using an algebraic system This seems unlikely; the likely truth is that they assembled formula that were useful for solving particular problems either by insight or experiment. You need to include actual text or literal translations of their method.Mrdthree 23:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible copyright violation.

I've removed some text some of which seems to have been copied from [1], as a potential copyright violation. Paul August ☎ 15:21, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I've restored the text on the Chaldeans, most of which came from the Hipparchus article (although I'm not sure about the original sources). The Old Babylonian section however would need to be re-written without directly copying from the History of Mathematics archive. Jagged 18:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I have trimmed, re-written, wikified and re-ordered the Old Babylonian Mathematics section. I think it is now sufficiently different from the source to be no longer copyvio, so I have put the re-written version back into the article. Gandalf61 13:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Well done. Paul August ☎ 20:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)