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* 5th century BC – [[Hippocrates of Chios]] utilizes [[Lune (mathematics)|lunes]] in an a * 5th century BC – [[Apastamba]], author of the Apastamba [[Sulba Sutras|Sulba Sutra]], a ...

...n the 13th century AD, which introduced [[Arab world|Arabian]] and [[India|Indian]] ideas to the continent. It has continued to be studied in the [[modern e ...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 ...

...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 ...

...[[recreational mathematics]] literature in the late 19th century. Several mathematicians have formulated different generalizations of the puzzle to numbers other th ...d|wensmi}} A version with 17 horses circulated as [[folklore]] in mid-20th-century America.{{r|browne}} ...

The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...

...nd, if so, how this could be done.<ref name=":1" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Georg Cantor]] enlarged the mathematical study of infinity by studying [ ===Early Indian=== ...

.... The problem is indeterminate, but it is made strictly determinate by the century of its utterance and the limit to a man's life. Those born in 1722 (1764–42 ....{{sfn|Arcavi|Bruckheimer|1989}} Several of his students went on to become mathematicians, most notably [[James Joseph Sylvester]], and some of them, [[Edward Routh] ...

...tance of this early work had a large impact on both contemporary and later mathematicians; for example, [[Abraham de Moivre]]. Bernoulli wrote the text between 1684 and 1689, including the work of mathematicians such as [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Gerolamo Cardano]], [[Pierre de Fermat]], ...

...mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> * c. 2800 BC&nbsp;– [[Indus Valley Civilisation]] on the [[Indian subcontinent]], earliest use of decimal ratios in a uniform system of [[Anc ...

...peared throughout history, including the work of [[Desargues]] in the 17th century, all the way back to the implicit use of [[spherical geometry]] to understa ...the theory of [[manifold]]s and [[Riemannian geometry]]. Later in the 19th century, it appeared that geometries without the [[parallel postulate]] ([[non-Eucl ...

...r Spiegel]]'',{{r|derspiegel42}} ''[[New Zealand Herald]]'',{{r|nz42}} ''[[Indian Express]]'',{{r|ind42}} ''[[Der Standard]]'',{{r|derstand42}} ''[[Las Provi ...presentations as sums of three cubes of non-negative integers. In the 19th century, [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] and collaborators compiled tables of solution ...

...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 ...

{{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 ...

...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...List of mathematical artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleito ...

...[[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 ...phor of a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]] began to be applied in 19th-century literature about [[Islamic history]], in the context of the western aesthet ...

...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...

...modern formal logic, which has its roots in the work of late 19th-century mathematicians such as [[Gottlob Frege]]. Today, the most commonly used system is [[classi ...roduction: Philosophy of logic today, pp. 1–12}} Starting in the late 19th century, many new formal systems have been proposed. There are disagreements about ...

...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W * [[Catapult]] — A Catapult dating to the 19th century B.C was found on the walls of the fortress of [[Buhen]].<ref name="wac">{{C ...

{{quote|The result has caught the imagination of most mathematicians because it is so unexpected, connecting two seemingly unrelated areas in ma ...s-solve-19th-century-number-riddle|title=Caltech Mathematicians Solve 19th Century Number Riddle|date=October 31, 2022|website=California Institute of Technol ...