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* [[Babylon]], a Semitic Akkadian city/state of ancient Mesopotamia founded in 1894 BC * [[Babylonia]], an ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation-state and cultural region based in central ...

...mation, opposing the predominant assumptions of [[Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)|mathematical formalism]].<ref>Imre Lakatos, ''Proofs and Refutations'' (19 ...ambiguous; the [[mathematical folklore]] article is dedicated to the usage of that term among professional mathematicians. ...

[[File:Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.jpg|thumb|A portion of the [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]]] ...ils/isbn_9780309096577/page/29}}.</ref> Ahmes claimed not to be the writer of the work but rather just the scribe. He claimed the material came from an e ...

This is a '''List of Lists of mathematicians''' and covers notable [[mathematician]]s by nationality, eth * [[List of American mathematicians]] ...

{{Short description|2nd-century BC Ancient Greek geometer}} ...c section]]s, in analogy to the [[conic section]]s studied by [[Apollonius of Perga]]. ...

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...rt, along with other European histories.|thumb|A chart of the relationship of historic cultures to time and territory (1769).]] '''Historical classification''' groups the various [[history]] topics into different categories according to subject matter as shown bel ...

{{for|the use of knotted cords used by the [[Inca Empire]]|quipu}} ...ventually replaced by [[Chain (unit)|surveyor's chain]]s, which being made of metal were less prone to stretching and thus were more accurate and consist ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek mathematician and geometer (c. 390–320 BC)}} | fields = Mathematics ...

{{short description|Ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician (fl. 1st-century BC)}} ...tory astronomy book for students. He also wrote a work on [[mathematics]], of which only fragments quoted by later authors survive. ...

[[File:Lute of Pythagoras.svg|thumb|300px|Lute of Pythagoras]] ...milarity|self-similar]] [[geometry|geometric figure]] made from a sequence of [[pentagram]]s. ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek mathematician (c. 240–180 BC)}} ...flourished sometime around the end of the 3rd century BC and the beginning of the 2nd century BC.<ref>Toomer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PF_mCAAA ...

{{Short description|Mathematical work of Brahmagupta}} ...rāhma-sphuṭa-siddhānta''''' ("Correctly Established [[siddhanta|Doctrine]] of [[Brahma]]", abbreviated BSS) ...

*[[Classical antiquity]], a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered ...cal architecture]], architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity ...

{{about|the mathematician|the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] doctor|Hippocrates}} ...is equal to the area of the triangle ABC. This is not a complete solution of the task (the complete solution is proven to be impossible with [[Compass a ...

...uivalent to the ratio of two [[integers]].) There is a more general notion of [[commensurability (group theory)|commensurability in group theory]]. ==History of the concept== ...

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...9 |isbn=9780199213122 |author=GER Lloyd |title=What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese perspectives |page=12}}</ref>]] ...seeking [[peer review]] and [[publication]], as opposed to the end result of [[mathematical proof|proven]] and published [[theorem]]s. ...

{{Short description|Product of prime numbers, plus one}} ...e product of the first ''n'' [[prime number]]s. They are named after the [[ancient Greek]] mathematician [[Euclid]], in connection with [[Euclid's theorem]] t ...

[[File:Torus-spir.svg|thumb|Spiric sections as planar sections of a torus]] ...'''spiric of Perseus''', is a quartic [[plane curve]] defined by equations of the form ...