"[A] fresh look at a 3700-year-old clay tablet suggests that Babylonian mathematicians not only developed the first trig table, beating the Greeks to the punch by more than 1000 years, but that they also figured out an entirely new way to look at the subject. However, other experts on the clay tablet, known as Plimpton 322 (P322), say the new work is speculative at best." ([Source](https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-babylonian-tablet-may-contain-first-evidence-trigonometry) )

Not recent, but interesting.

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