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** {{w|George Grote}}, ''Aristotle'' (1872, 1880) 2nd edition, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1U0NAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA380 pp. 380-3 * Hippocrates of Chios... the most famous mathematician of his century... is credited with the idea of arranging theorems so that later ones can b ...

...ation of analysis|arithmetization]] in the second and third decades of the century. In 1910, [[w:Ernst Steinitz|E. Steinitz]]... proceeding from, and partly g ...ury by [[David Hilbert|Hilbert]] and others, and finally, in the twentieth century, given new direction by the work of [[w:Ernst Steinitz|Steinitz]] in 1910, ...

...nce. Definitive works on perspective were written much later by eighteenth-century mathematicians Brook Taylor and [[Johann Heinrich Lambert|J. H. Lambert]]. ** [[w:Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet|Sir William Young]], ''Contemplatio Philosophica, a posthumous work ...

...rich tangle of ideas and experiments that make up the history of twentieth century physics. This background is provided in a number of "flashback"sections on * By the end of the nineteenth century the idea of the [[atom]] had become familiar... but not yet universally acc ...

...tition to the golden age of Greek thought, which passed it on to the first century A.D. to the decadent arithmologist Nicomachus. He, enriching his already op [[Category:2nd century deaths]] ...

...v 1, 1979) p. 348 & Andrey Vyshedskiy, ''On The Origin Of The Human Mind'' 2nd edition * '''The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if ...

...er, their contributions were directly influenced by [[w:William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker|Brouncker]] and [[John Wallis|Wallis]] who, in March of ...and unusual. '''Between us and the mathematicians of the late seventeenth century stands Leonhard Euler'''... He is the real founder of our modern conception ...

...er, their contributions were directly influenced by [[w:William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker|Brouncker]] and Wallis who, in March of 1655, made disco ...rofessor of geometry at Oxford and the ablest British mathematician of the century, next to Newton. In his ''Arithmetica Infinitorum'' (1655), he applied anal ...

...nding of the Infinitesimal Calculus, and which since the beginning of this century has been recognised by the best mathematicians as the only one that furnish ...[[Riemann Hypothesis]]... remained an obsession all through the twentieth century and remains one today, having resisted every attempt at proof and disproof. ...

...be replaced by additions and subtractions. To accomplish this... sixteenth century astronomers used formulas... as <math>2 \sin \alpha \sin \beta = cos(\alpha ...t physical [[astronomy]] have been as far advanced in his time as it was a century after, and would not [[John Napier|N<small>APIER</small>]] have been [[Isaa ...

...thematician]], [[astronomer]] and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his [[w:Kepler's laws of plan ** Variant translation: '''It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.''' ...