The contribution of Babylonian towards the development of mathematics

1. The contribution of
Babylonian towards the
development of
mathematics
By
Dhivya.R
20UED002

2. Babylon

3. Babylonian mathematics 1650 to 1900
BC

4. The Babylonians
lived here, 5000-
2000 years ago

5. Babylonian Men and women

6.  Cities and writing for 1500 years already.
 Brick built cities on rivers and canals.
 Wealth through farming barley and sheep
 Central temples to workshop many god’s
 King Hammurabi(1750-1792)BC
 Most children didn’t go to school

7. The Archaeology of Babylonian
Mathematics
 Tablet’s don’t rot like paper or papyrus do.
 They got lost thrown away or reused
 Archaeologists dig them up just like pots,bones or buildings.
 Looking at things in contact tells us far more than studying single objects.

8. Babylonian Numbers

9. Cuneiform
 Cuneiform system of writing used in the ancient middle east
 The main contribution of the Sumerian and Babylonian was the
development of writing their cuneiform script an advance that allowed
record keeping and knowledge to be preserved and passed down Through
the generations.
 Many of these records preserved on clay tablets have been discovered by
archaeologists about the daily life of ancient people.

10. The plimpton

11. The plimpton 322 tablet is a Babylonian clay tablet written in cuneiform from
around1800 BC( now held at Columbia University)
The tablet contains four coloumnsof numbers written in base 60( that system survive in
our house,seconds and minutes.

12. Babylonian numerals
 Astrological observations and calculations.
 Abacus
 Positional numeral system with base 60 (divisible by
1,2,3,4,5,10,12,15,20,30,and60)which appeared 1800-1900BC
 The Babylonian developed a system for writing down numbers and using
symbols for single tens and hundreds.showing that they probably used a
decimal system for everyday life.
 Base 60 system allowed them to handle large numbers comfortably and
perform all of the major arithmetical functions.

13. Babylonian Multiplication table

14. Babylonians Astronomy
 Babylonian to develop accurate calenders to chart the turning of the seasons
and predict the best times for planting ,extremely to give more importantce
in a culture with a strong agricultural base.
 They were believed that there were 360days in a year and this formed the
basis of the numeral system they divided in this into degrees and this
represented the daily movement of the sun around the sky.