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About the movie: With New York City as backdrop, Laurence Kirby takes viewers on a tour of our mathematical debt to ancient cultures in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. We witness their ideas still playing crucial roles in our society and 21st-century technology. At the center of the film is a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet known as Plimpton 322, which was excavated in Iraq around 1920 and now has its home in New York. Released 6 December 2011. |
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Click on the image at right for a mathematical puzzle-poem. Only 5 people have ever solved it. Be the 6th person to send me the solution! |
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