Long before algebra had a name, someone in ancient Mesopotamia quietly solved the world’s first recorded equation on a clay tablet.
In an age without calculators, symbols, or even paper, a Babylonian scribe pressed a reed stylus into wet clay and set up a problem that today reads like high-school algebra.
SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS:
x + x/7 = 19
It may not look extraordinary today, but almost 4,000 years ago, this was mathematics at its boldest.
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