Thus, although a fair quantity of define information is now known about the science and the mathematics of ancient Babylonia and Egypt, very little is known with any degree of certainty about these studies in ancient China and India. The early Babylonians drew isosceless triangle on wet clay plates with needles. In this way, they made wedge-shaped letters. After making cuneiform the baked the plates to keep them for a long time. After deciphering the wedge-shaped letters, we can know that the babylonians used very high sysytem of calculation in commerce and agriculture with the sexagesimal positional system.
Babylonian geometry is intimately related to practical mensuration.
The chief feature of Babylonian geometry is algebraic character. Babylonians already knew the solution of quadratic eguations and eguations of second degree with two unknowns and they could aiso hondle eguations of the third and fourth degree. Thus the development of algebra guickened. We and undoubtedly owe to the ancient Babylonians our present division of the circumference of a circle into 360 equal parts. They also extracted the volume of a right cylinder and the area of a triangle but they handled only a simple equation.