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..., without knowing how they can be defined; this is what mathematicians and physicists did during several centuries before the first formal definitions were provi ...d not be exactly determined.<ref>T. K. Puttaswamy, "The Accomplishments of Ancient Indian Mathematicians", pp. 410–11.&nbsp;In: {{citation |title = Mathematic ...

...atically express the relationship between [[force]] and [[momentum]]. Some physicists interpret [[Newton's second law|Newton's second law of motion]] as a defini ...s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Doran |first1=Chris |title=Geometric algebra for physicists |last2=Lasenby |first2=Anthony N. |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge universit ...

...aad8085 |pmid=26823423 |s2cid=206644971}}</ref> South of Egypt the [[Nubia|ancient Nubians]] established a system of geometry including early versions of sun ...ity by Hippasus of Metapontum |year=1945 |title=Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics |series=Annals of Mathematics; Boston Studies in the Philosophy ...

The theorem is named for the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] philosopher [[Pythagoras]], born around 570 BC. The theorem has been [[M ...gorean proof, but acknowledges from the outset of his discussion "that the Greek literature which we possess belonging to the first five centuries after Pyt ...

*'''[[Boris Farmakovsky]]''', archaeologist of [[Ancient Greek]] colony [[Olbia, Ukraine|Olbia]] *'''[[Lev Gumilev]]''', historian and ethnologist, prominent researcher of ancient [[Central Asia]]n peoples, related [[ethnogenesis]] and [[biosphere]], infl ...

...tics|of various civilizations]], including that of the [[Greek mathematics|ancient Greeks]], who "did mathematics for the beauty of it".<ref>Lang, p. 3</ref> ...

...stent popular claims have been made for the use of the [[golden ratio]] in ancient art and architecture, without reliable evidence. In the Italian [[Renaissan ==Origins: from ancient Greece to the Renaissance== ...

...ook|last=Gutas |first=Dimitri |author-link=Dimitri Gutas |date=1998 |title=Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad ...me into existence through a gigantic endeavor to acquire and translate the ancient sciences of the Greeks between the eighth and ninth centuries. The translat ...

...it the scientific name '''Pithecanthropus erectus''', a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning ''upright ape-man''. ...sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise]] (once believed to lack feet). It ...

A fleeting hint of an ancient decimal or metric system may be found in the [[Mohenjo-Daro#Ruler|Mohenjo-D Decimal multiples of these units were defined by Greek [[SI prefix|prefixes]]: ''"[[myria-]]"'' (10,000), ''"[[kilo-]]"'' (1000), ...

...[volume]]. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter [[rho]]), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathemat ...hinking from [[chemistry]], [[physics]], and [[engineering]] to understand ancient, [[Empirical relationship|phenomenological]] observations in [[metallurgy]] ...

...of the world [played] a greater role in the evolution of firearms than the ancient Italian valley region known as ''Val Trompia''}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cit .../hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/candles2.html|title=Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Candles|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...

...=www.spacedictionary.com |language=en}}</ref> The term is derived from the Greek word ''anemos'', which means [[wind]], and is used to describe any wind spe ...he [[orbit]] of an [[physical body|object]]. The word comes via Latin from Greek and is [[cognate]] with ''[[apse]]''.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://d ...