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math.HO2016
Contradictions and narrowness of views in "The fables of Ishango, or the irresistible temptation of mathematical fiction", answers and updates (in English and in French)
Vladimir Pletser, Dirk Huylebrouck
We answer to criticisms of O. Keller about our interpretation work on the Ishango rod, the oldest mathematical tool of humankind. Our hypothesis, that is widely accepted, is that t…
math.HO2014★ 2 cited
Additional congruence conditions on the number of terms in sums of consecutive squared integers equal to squared integers
Vladimir Pletser
The problem of finding all the integer solutions in , and of sums of consecutive integer squares starting at equal to squared integers , has no s…
math.HO2012★ 2 cited
Does the Ishango Bone Indicate Knowledge of the Base 12? An Interpretation of a Prehistoric Discovery, the First Mathematical Tool of Humankind
Vladimir Pletser
In the early fifties, the Belgian Prof. J. de Heinzelin discovered a bone in the region of a fishermen village called Ishango, at one of the farthest sources of the Nile, on the bo…