Timeline for Rediscovery of lost mathematics
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| Dec 31, 2020 at 23:38 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | This example was noted in a comment on the original question, "A remarkable example: www-math.mit.edu/~rstan/papers/hip.pdf – Pietro Majer Jul 21 '14 at 17:53." | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 15:35 | comment | added | none | @TobyBartels, I think it is considered a transcription error: see this paper for some of the history, and an argument that Hipparchus's calculation was actually wrong from the perspective of Stoic logic (although it was mathematically fine). | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 21:54 | comment | added | Toby Bartels | Sure, that makes sense; it would hard to check for transcription errors in something like this, since most readers would be in no position to verify the number for themselves. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 0:24 | comment | added | Mark S | @TobyBartels, Hipparchus might not have made the error; it could be merely a scribal error in the manuscripts of Plutarch. I saw this issue raised in a research paper that I'll have to dig up. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 5:08 | comment | added | Toby Bartels | So did Hipparchus make an error with 310952 instead of 310954, or was he counting something different? | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 17:54 | history | edited | Dan Piponi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jul 18, 2014 at 17:47 | history | answered | Dan Piponi | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jul 18, 2014 at 17:47 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Dan Piponi |