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3 days ago · Hypatia's father Theon of Alexandria is best known for having edited the existing text of Euclid's Elements, shown here in a ninth-century manuscript. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria (c. 335 – c. 405 AD).
5 days ago · He did for modern analytic geometry and trigonometry what the Elements of Euclid had done for ancient geometry, and the resulting tendency to render mathematics and physics in arithmetical terms has continued ever since. He is known for familiar results in elementary geometry—for example, the Euler line through the orthocentre (the ...
1 day ago · : 282 The case of power 2 is explicitly stated in Euclid's elements and the case of at most power 3 had been established by Indian mathematicians. Khayyam was the mathematician who noticed the importance of a general binomial theorem.
3 days ago · Euclid's Elements (c. 300 BC) is one of the oldest extant Greek mathematical treatises and consisted of 13 books written in Alexandria; collecting theorems proven by other mathematicians, supplemented by some original work.
Jun 27, 2024 · M. Poincaré wrote that in the Mathematical Sciences a good notation has got the same philosophical importance as a good classification in the Natural Sciences. Obviously, and even with more reason, one can say as much of the methods, because it is indeed on their choice that depends the possibility of forcing (to use again the words of the ...
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5 days ago · Pythagoras (born c. 570 bce, Samos, Ionia [Greece]—died c. 500–490 bce, Metapontum, Lucanium [Italy]) was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood that, although religious in nature, formulated principles that influenced the thought of Plato and Aristotle and contributed to the development of mathematics and...
