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'''[[w:Diophantus|Diophantus]] of Alexandria''' (c. 201 - 285 AD) sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alex ...s until all the terms on both sides are positive. Then we must take equals from equals until one term is left on each side. ...

** What he exclaimed as he ran naked from his bath, realizing that by measuring the displacement of [[water]] an obje ...he principle of the lever; as quoted by [[w:Pappus of Alexandria|Pappus of Alexandria]], ''Synagoge'', Book VIII, c. AD 340; also found in ''[[w:Chiliades|Chilia ...

...tions can be taken in other ways than by direct attack, that when repulsed from a direct assault it is well to reconnoitre and occupy the surrounding groun ...of the problem. ...But progress was made on this problem by approaching it from a different direction and by newly discovered paths. [[w:Johann Heinrich La ...

...obst Bürgi]]... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...s invented the sine and the tangent. The Greeks had measured an angle only from the [[w:Chord (geometry)|chord]] of the arc it subtended: the sine was half ...

* The history of [[w:History of Alexandria|Alexandrian]] mathematics begins with the Elements of [[Euclid]] and closes ...articular, but who likes to watch how things grow, will be able to extract from these pages a notion of the whole history of mathematical science down to [ ...

...is based on a calculus of operations, on laws of thought. All mathematics, from the first, was so in reality; but the evolvers of the modern higher calculu ...eptions found in traditional geometry and algebra which had been developed from spatial intuition. ...

:<small>Translated from ''Arithmetike eisagoge'' (ca. 100 AD) by {{w|Martin Luther D'Ooge}}, with s ...tinue uniformly and the same in the universe and never depart even briefly from their existence; these real things would be things immaterial'''...<!--p.18 ...

...goreanism, from the 6th until the 5th century BC, and late-Pythagoreanism, from the 4th until the 3rd century BC. The {{w|Spartan}} colony of {{w|Taranto}} * If someone associates with a true Pythagorean, what will he will get from him, and in what quantity? I would say: statesmanship, geometry, astronomy, ...

...he testimony and have set forth what seem to be the reasonable conclusions from the evidence...<!--p. iv--> .... sets of numerals, and the [[w:Ancient Rome|Roman]] symbols... changed... from century to century.<!--p. 1--> ...

...ved research grants from [[Elon Musk]] to investigate {{w|existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence}}. * We have to get away from this idea today with some fact-checking sites which might themselves have a ...

.... Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 17 seconds to travel the average distance from the surface of the Sun to the Earth.]] ** [[Douglas Adams]], ''Mostly Harmless'' (1992) from [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] series ...

** '''In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.''' ...anslated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in ''The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon'' (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Ma ...

...thematicians did not feel so encumbered and have required only consistency from their lists of axioms. ...It remains to be seen whether the initial conditi ...r|Fourier]] in that of trigonometric series, or [[w:Bhāskara II|Bhaskara]] from Lagrange in the region of [[w:Pell's equation|Fermat's equation]]. Professi ...

...k mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by [[Raphael]] in this detail from ''The School of Athens''.<ref>No likeness or description of Euclid's physic ...s does not correspond to simple observation … [[Euclid]]'s postulates came from the Pythagorean theorem, not the other way around. ~ [[Richard Hamming]] ]] ...

...valieri's principle#History|doctrine of indivisibles]] and to eliminate it from philosophical and scientific consideration. In the very years that [[Thomas ...r|Fourier]] in that of trigonometric series, or [[w:Bhāskara II|Bhaskara]] from Lagrange in the region of [[w:Pell's equation|Fermat's equation]]. Professi ...

[[File:Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy.jpg |thumb|right|Truth is [[strong]] enough to overcome * [[Art]] is [[magic]] delivered from the lie of being truth. ...