Athar Alrafedain

Abstract

The Babylonians introduced the greatest of civilizational achievements in the history of mankind in different branches of knowledge, especially mathematics, because it is the language of sciences and the basis upon which the other sciences are built, such as astronomy, physics, chemistry, geometry and etc….Actually, the achievement, that took place in Mesopotamia are regarded as the cornerstone of all inventions that appeared in different adjacent countries and in later different periods. Also, the remains and the information that came down to us underline the greatness of this people and the originality of this civilization(1). Because of this development, we preferred to focus on a type of mathematics which is seen as one of the natural consequences of the economic and intellectual development in Mesopotamia. Despite its initial steps which are considered experimental knowledge, it Later took important steps towards discovering a number of scientific facts that resulted from the abstract theoretical meditations