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{{Short description|Chinese mathematician (580–640)}} ...aotong''' (王孝通) (AD 580–640), also known as Wang Hs'iao-t'ung, was a Chinese mathematician, calendarist, politician, and writer of the early Tang dynast ...

{{short description|Chinese-American mathematician}} ...e most influential [[Topology|topologists]] of the second half of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/ ...

...elopment for solution of high order polynomial equations in the history of Chinese mathematics. Before his time, ''The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art'' ...problems, and his work is a major advance in [[Algebra]] in the history of Chinese mathematics. ...

...duate Texts in Mathematics]], 1972, 7th edition 1997 (also translated into Chinese and Russian) [[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]] ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...condary-school (grades 6 to 12) courses in mathematics reads: Pre-Algebra (7th or 8th grade), Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calculus, and Calculus ...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 ...

...] ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]'', and mentions the proposals of German mathematicians [[Carl Anton Bretschneider]] and [[Hermann Hankel]] that Pythagoras may hav .../details/precalculuseasyw00lawr/page/296 296] |isbn=0-7641-2892-2 |edition=7th |publisher=Barron's Educational Series |year=2005}} ...

...tician, author of many of the best books on arithmetic written in the 15th Century ...509–1575), humanist and mathematician, translator of many works of ancient mathematicians, the proposition known as [[Commandino's theorem]] first appears in his wor ...

...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 ...

...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, The 9th century mathematician [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expand ...

...[[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 ...