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'''{{w|Hippocrates of Chios}}''' (c. 470 – c. 410 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer, and astronomer. He was born on the isle of C ** {{w|Morris Kline}}, ''Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times'' (1972) ...

...achus of Gerasa,''' (Greek: Νικόμαχος; c. 60 – c. 120 CE) was an important ancient Greek mathematician best known for ''{{w|Introduction to Arithmetic}}'' and ...] nonsense of their own to an already enormous bulk, they transmitted this ancient superstition to the golden age of Greek thought, which passed it on to the ...

** A&E Television Networks, LLC., "Ancient Einsteins," ''[[Ancient Impossible]]'' (July 27, 2014). ** A&E Television Networks, LLC., "Ancient Einsteins," ''Ancient Impossible'' (July 27, 2014). ...

...; the [[w:Ancient Greece|Greeks]] had two... sets of numerals, and the [[w:Ancient Rome|Roman]] symbols... changed... from century to century.<!--p. 1--> ...arts of India''', as was the case with the letters. In his ''Chronology of Ancient Nations'' he gives the sum of a geometric progression... in three different ...

...|Hellenistic]] mathematics. The word "mathematics" itself derives from the ancient Greek μάθημα (mathema), meaning "subject of instruction". The use of genera ...d convicted of the supreme stupidity in the history of mathematics. ...The ancient Babylonians had a rare capacity for numerical calculation; the majority of ...

...r neo-Pythagoreanism) was a school of {{w|Hellenistic philosophy}} and {{w|Ancient Roman philosophy}} which revived Pythagorean doctrines. Neopythagoreanism w * It has fallen to the lot of one people, the [[ancient Greece|ancient Greeks]], to endow human thought with two outlooks on the universe neither ...

...ally rather than arithmetically? This certainly is indicated by many works ancient and modern. Diophantus himself also indicates this. But he has freed himsel ** [[w:Morris Kline|Morris Kline]], ''Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times'' (1972) p. 134 ...

.... was due in no small measure to the introduction of Egyptian papyrus into Greece. This event occurred about 650 B.C., and the invention of printing in the 1 ...:Zhu Shijie|Chu-Shï-kié]] (c. 1300), the result being the perfecting of an ancient method which resembles the one later developed by [[w:William George Horner ...

...agesimal notation of fractions from the Babylonians and introduced it into Greece. From that time '''sexagesimal fractions held almost full sway in astronomi ...orus]], [[Diogenes Laërtius|Diogenes Laertius]], [[Iamblichus]], and other ancient writers to have originated in Egypt. ...

'''[[:w:Geometry|Geometry]]''' (Ancient Greek: γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a branch of [[mat ...leted is evidently a natural science; we may in fact regard it as the most ancient branch of physics. Its affirmations rest essentially on induction from expe ...

...as a British civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. Heath translated works of [ ...ent and mutually helpful intercourse with one another'.<br />Truly,<center>Greece and her foundations are<br />Built below the tide of war,<br />Based on the ...

...the propositions. The thirteen books cover [[Euclidean geometry]] and the ancient Greek version of elementary [[number theory]]. The work also includes an al * The most influential mathematics textbook of ancient times is easily named, for the ''Elements'' of [[Euclid]] has set the patte ...

*** As quoted in ''Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources'' (1899) by James Wood ...uoted in ''Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors'' (1894) by [[w:Maturin Murray Ballou|Maturin Murray Bal ...

...k architecture, and their systematic use started with the [[w:Ancient Rome|Ancient Romans]] who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of struc ...ffect. Even as late as the time of {{w|Hadrian}}, after long subjection of Greece to Roman control, the arcaded conduit to the {{w|Tower of the Winds}} at At ...

...dence in human reason and a sacred respect for what the authorities in the ancient world had written. ...In 1956, Prof. Hooykaas had already affirmed that "th ...turned the authority in science not only in the [[middle ages]] but of the ancient world—since it ended not only in the eclipse of [[Aristotelian physics]]—it ...

...authority of those the oldest and most celebrated philosophers of ancient Greece and Phoenicia, who made a vacuum and atoms and the gravity of atoms the fir ...CE Wellcome L0058045.jpg|thumb|<center> &nbsp; &nbsp; Cupping Vessel<br />Ancient Egypt</center>]] ...

...d convicted of the supreme stupidity in the history of mathematics. ...The ancient Babylonians had a rare capacity for numerical calculation; the majority of ...gebraists of Islam and the European Renaissance were contemporaries of the ancient Egyptians. They wondered and were perplexed, of course; but there they stop ...

...d the accounts left us by [[Herodotus]] and other writers show that '''the ancient Egyptians... had a considerable knowledge of processes essentially chemical ...'[T]he word "chemistry" has its origin in ''chêmi'', "the black land," the ancient name for Egypt.''' The art... was constantly spoken of as the "Egyptian art ...

...the world, to the first use of perspective in [[art]], which occurred in [[Greece]] in the two decades c.500-480 BC. ...in ''The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times'' (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329 ...

...ma;&chi;&#940;&tau;&eta; &#944;&lambda;&eta;'', or finished matter, of the ancient philosophy. ...authority of those the oldest and most celebrated philosophers of ancient Greece and Phoenicia, who made a vacuum and atoms and the gravity of atoms the fir ...