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Re: Ariadne's thread
Posted:
Dec 13, 2011 3:10 AM
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Math-history can't be done with words. One has
to calculate and demonstrate hypothetical methods
and algorithms at work. I have nothing to do with
a "modern partitioning method" but offer methods
I reconstructed on my own: the number pattern for
the approximation of the square root of 2 from 1979,
found while examining the geometry of the former
refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie at Milan,
expanded to the number columns for the approximations
of the square roots of 3 and 5 and the cube root of 2
in late 1993, the systematic method of calculating
the circle in early 1994, the first pi sequences in
the same year, then my interpretations of over sixty
problems in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus in the
following years, and the application of numer sequences
to astronomical problems. Additive number patterns
and sequences were the universal tool of Egyptian and
Mesopotamian mathematics, and now prove their worth
also when it comes to Mesoamerican astronomy and
mathematics. They allow to work with integers, and
provide many values from which you can choose the one
that comes handy in a given calculation or number system.
They are a very simple but clever tool. I saw no problem
that could not be solved with those methods.
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