The Lost Secret Inch and the Mathematical Barbarians Ancient math rediscovered
THE LOST SECRET INCH and THE MATHEMATICAL BARBARIANS with Appendix "A ONE HUNDRED BILLION POUND, THREE PIECE YARDSTICK" 1978 by Duncan E. McPherson Dedicated to Professor William Beverly Professor of Mathematics Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania PREFACE This book is written to describe the discovery of an ancient and lost system of Egyptian mathematics. The only lost science ever discovered or reinvented. It is a renaissance of Third Dynasty Egyptian mathematics. INTRODUCTION This is a book demonstrating a new branch of mathematics or a very old, unknown branch of mathematics invented, I believe, by the great Imhotep, Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt~ He lived approximately 500 years before the construction of the great pyramid and an estimated 600 years before the flood of Biblical Fame. The fgyptians were known to have engaged in obscurantism. This science could have been an ancient military secret of map making and never known publicly. The mathematical sophisticat...