Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-26 | Page 9 | A Very Old Rule Section

A vry old anle the oldest mathematic book in the world is believed to be the papyrus in the british museum professed to have been written by ahmes a scribe of king ra a us about the period between 2000 and 1700 B C tills papyrus was translated by essenlohr Elsen lohr 0 and it was found to contain a rule for making a square equal in area to a given circle it was not put forth as an original discovery but as the transcript of a treatise years older still which sends us back to approximately 2500 D C when ISsy pUaa mathematicians solved or thought they had solved the problem of squaring the circle