Archive for December, 2011

development of statistics in Africa – the year 2011

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Africa often shines with ideas and is always the origin of good and prosperous ideas. The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon’s fibula, (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LebomboBone.html). The Ishango bone, found near [...]