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Mathematician Discovers 3700-Year-Old Clay Tablet
Australian mathematician named Daniel Mansfield has discovered a piece of clay tablet from the Old Babylonian Period, claiming it to be the oldest example of applied geometry. The 3700-year-old tablet also called Si.427 was housed in one of Istanbul’s museums for over 100 years. “It's the only known example of a cadastral document from the OB period, which is a plan used by surveyors to define land boundaries,” said Mansfield.
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Indian Mathematician Nikhil Wins 'Michael And Sheila Held' Prize
In a unique achievement, Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has won the coveted 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize for resolving long-standing questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and Ramanujan graphs. By presenting innovational papers on the problems, Nikhil with fellow recipients tapped an unprecedented connection between linear algebra, the geometry of polynomials and graph theory. Nikhil who teaches at California University will… read-more
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