The oldest example of applied geometry has been discovered on a 3,700-year-old clay tablet featuring maths attributed to Pythagoras 1,000 years later. The tablet, known as Si.427 was discovered in ...

Joanna M. Papakonstantinou, Richard A. Tapia, Origin and Evolution of the Secant Method in One Dimension, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 120, No. 6 (June–July 2013), pp. 500-518 ...