• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2007

The aims of the study were to review the transcriptions of the famous cuneiform tablet 'Plimpton 322' and interpret the meanings of the numbers. Since the tablet was found, many scholars tried to interpretate the relation among numbers. Neugebauer & Sacks, Buck, and Robson's finding are reviewed. This tablet must be the most well known and taken as an important role to complete a proof of the Pytagoras' theorem before the development of Greek Mathematics.