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  • ...was probably written "near the beginning of the second quarter of the 7th century CE, if not earlier."<ref name="Gupta"/> Brahmagupta was one of the first to Mathematicians prior to Brahmagupta used a simple [[linear interpolation]] formula. The l ...
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  • ...tanus|the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets]] (916), [[Aleppo Codex]] (10th century), [[Leningrad Codex|Codex Leningradensis]] (1008).{{sfn|Würthwein|1995|pp=3 ...Codex Marchalianus]] ('''Q'''; <math> \mathfrak{G}</math><sup>Q</sup>; 6th century).{{sfn|Würthwein|1995|pp=73-74}} ...
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  • ::10th Trofeo Bicicletas Jonny : 10th [[2022 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial|Time trial]], [[20 ...
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  • ...holarship)|exhibition]]. Blissard received the B. A. in 1826 and finished 10th [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Senior Optime]] in the 1826 [[Cambridg ...years after Blissard's death, the church of Hampstead Norris, an eleventh-century Norman structure dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, underwent a substantial ...
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  • ...tudy in [[Europe]] dates to the work of [[Leonardo Fibonacci]] in the 13th century AD, which introduced [[Arab world|Arabian]] and [[India|Indian]] ideas to t ...es comes from problem 79 of the [[Rhind papyrus]], which dates to the 16th century BC. The problem concerns a certain [[geometric series]], and has similarit ...
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  • | title = 10th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ...}} traces the definition of the power distance to the work of 19th-century mathematicians [[Edmond Laguerre]] and [[Georgy Voronoy]].<ref name="a87"/> {{harvtxt|Feje ...
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  • | url = https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-team-up-on-twin-primes-conjecture-20131119 | title = Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42 ...
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  • ...evenly into one of these lengths as well as the other. Hippasus in the 5th century BC, however, was able to deduce that there was no common unit of measure, a [[Greek mathematics|Greek mathematicians]] termed this ratio of incommensurable magnitudes ''alogos'', or inexpressi ...
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  • ...abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of [[mathematics]]. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some asp Mathematicians commonly describe an especially pleasing method of [[Mathematical proof|pro ...
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  • {{Short description|Foundational controversy in twentieth-century mathematics}} ...x|de|Grundlagenstreit|lit=foundational debate}}) was a debate in twentieth-century mathematics over [[Foundations of mathematics|fundamental questions]] about ...
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  • }}, is a collection of papers, published in issues 3 and 4 of the 10th volume, and partly on the 1st issue of the 11th volume of the seventh serie [[Category:20th-century Italian mathematicians]] ...
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  • ...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...clidean are known, the first ones having been discovered in the early 19th century. ...
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  • ...focused on the [[Ptolemy's table of chords|calculation of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric rati ...PA235 235–236]|loc="Appendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) cons ...
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  • ...mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> ...the [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus|Rhind papyrus]] which dates to the 16th century BCE.<ref name="Biggs">{{cite book ...
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  • | year_start = Before 12th century CE In the 17th century, the Queen of [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]] adopted some Vettathunadu prince ...
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  • {{Short description|17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994}} ...wn as a [[conjecture]] rather than a theorem. After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|the first successful proof]] was ...
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  • ...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...
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  • ...school geometry: evolution of the two-column proof in the early twentieth century |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020264906740 |journal=Edu ...Christopher |publisher=Pearson |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-135-73258-8 |edition=10th}}</ref> ...
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  • ...[[history of Islam]], traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.<ref name=Saliba>{{cite book|last=Saliba |first=George |author-link=George ...ic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbāsid Society (2nd-4th/8th-10th Centuries) |location=London |publisher=[[Routledge]]}}{{page needed|date=Fe ...
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  • ...] ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]'', and mentions the proposals of German mathematicians [[Carl Anton Bretschneider]] and [[Hermann Hankel]] that Pythagoras may hav ...[[similar figures]]. This was known by [[Hippocrates of Chios]] in the 5th century BC,<ref>Heath, T. L., ''A History of Greek Mathematics'', Oxford University ...
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