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In the present paper I shall reveal two circular figures hidden behind the Susa mathematical text no.3,lines 5 and 6 with my own analysis of the text.
We present and discuss a number of known results and open problems abelian squares in words on small alphabets.
This article discusses two versions of elliptic equations obtained from a system of equations describing a rational cuboid. Analysis of elliptic equations shows that they are equivalent, and that there are rational points on the elliptic…
Convex solutions $A,B,I,J$ of four Abel equations are numerically studied. We do not know exact formulas for any of these functions, but conjecture that $A,B$ and $I,J$ are closely related. [Corrigendum at end.]
One of the greatest achievements of Greek mathematics is the proof that the square root of 2 is irrational. It has not been thought that the Babylonians appreciated the concept of irrationality and certainly that they did not prove that the…
The original version of this paper did not take into account that there may be solutions (x_0, y_o)in Z X Z of f(x,y) = x^3 + p(y)x + q(y) = 0 even though w_0 = (-3D(y_0))^(1/2) is irrational.
This paper is dedicated to present an exact solution for a nonlinear differential equation so-called Abel equation. This equation was known as one of the group of unsolvable differential equations. The present method is applicable for any…
We first reformulate and expand with several novel findings some of the basic results in the integrability of Abel equations. Next, these results are applied to Vein's Abel equation whose solutions are expressed in terms of the third order…
We solve the game of Babylon when played with chips of two colors, giving a winning strategy for the second player in all previously unsolved cases.
Late-Babylonian mathematics (450-100 BC), represented by some 60 cuneiform tablets from Babylon and Uruk, is incompletely known compared to its abundantly preserved, well-studied Old-Babylonian predecessor (1800-1600 BC). With the present…
In this treatise I present the solutions of the third Clay Millennium problem in the computational complexity and the fourth Clay Millennium problem in classical fluid dynamics.
We present a collection of research questions on cubic surfaces in 3-space. These questions inspired a collection of papers to be published in a special issue of the journal Le Matematiche. This article serves as the introduction to that…
One unsolved mathematical problem remains the perfect cuboid problem. A perfect cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped whose edges, face diagonals and space diagonal are all expressed as integers. No such cuboid has yet been discovered and…
The conditions for cubic equations, to have 3 real roots and 2 of the roots lie in the closed interval $[-1, 1]$ are given. These conditions are visualized. This question arises in physics in e.g. the theory of tops.
We discuss the babylonian method of extracting the root square of a number, from the point of view of modern mathematics. We also speculate that the babylonian mathematics was rich enough for a generalization of this method, despite the…
Over 300 sequences and many unsolved problems and conjectures related to them are presented herein together with theorems corollaries, formulae, examples, mathematical criteria, etc. (about integer sequences, numbers, quotients, residues,…
Omar Khayyam's treatment of cubic equations by intersections of conic sections has often been read as an anticipation of analytic or coordinate geometry. This paper argues that such a reading obscures the conceptual structure of Khayyam's…
We study the Abel differential equation x0 = A(t)x3 + B(t)x2 +C(t)x. Specifically, we find bounds on the number of its rational solutions when A(t), B(t) and C(t) are polynomials with real or complex coefficients; and on the number of…
This article studies three-dimensional objects and their volumes in Elamite mathematics, particularly those found in the Susa Mathematical Tablet No.\,14 (\textbf{SMT No.\,14}). In our discussion, we identify some basic solids whose volumes…
The recent notion of $q$-deformed irrational numbers is characterized by the invariance with respect to the action of the modular group $\PSL(2,\Z)$, or equivalently under the Burau representation of the braid group~$B_3$. The theory of…