# Keep taking the tablets

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Robin Wilson
- Year: 2004
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/keep-taking-tablets)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Many thousands of surviving mathematical clay tablets provide much information about Mesopotamian mathematics - but what mathematics did they do, and why is it relevant to us today? In contrast, although the Egyptian pyramids provide us with an impressive primary source, only a handful of mathematical papyri survive. What do they contain, and what influence did they have?

## Lectures

1. [Keep taking the tablets](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/keep-taking-tablets/d02744e0338f) (YouTube)