The earliest known mathematics appear to be attempts to quantify time and make calendars, with other early efforts directed towards accounting, astronomy, and engineering.

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Even as Adam Riess was regaling the media with an amusing, self-depreciating, anecdote about his early morning wake-up call from Oslo, deep in the bowels of UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy researchers were putting the finishing touches to a camera that could finally shed some light on the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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