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- {{Use Indian English|date=April 2023}} ...n science|science]], particularly the [[Indian astronomy|astronomy]] and [[Indian mathematics|mathematics]] of the [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathemati ...25 KB (3,362 words) - 02:59, 22 January 2025
- It was first discovered in the 14th century by [[Indian mathematics|Indian mathematician]] [[Mādhava of Sangamagrāma]] ({{c.|1340}} – c. 1425), t ...achin-like formula]]s for {{tmath|\pi}}. [[Isaac Newton]] (1684) and other mathematicians [[series acceleration|accelerated the convergence]] of the series via vario ...17 KB (2,279 words) - 08:22, 19 May 2024
- {{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}} ...formation)|table]] of [[sine|trigonometric sines]] constructed by the 14th century [[Kerala]] [[mathematician]]-[[astronomer]] [[Madhava of Sangamagrama]] (c. ...19 KB (2,105 words) - 19:53, 10 February 2024
- ...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 ...40 KB (5,924 words) - 05:58, 15 February 2025
- ...harvnb|Katz|1995}}; {{harvnb|Roy|2021|loc=Ch. 1. Power Series in Fifteenth-Century Kerala, pp. 1–22}}</ref> Using modern notation, these series are: All three series were later independently discovered in 17th century Europe. The series for sine and cosine were rediscovered by [[Isaac Newton] ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:57, 11 January 2025
- ...mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> * c. 2800 BC – [[Indus Valley Civilisation]] on the [[Indian subcontinent]], earliest use of decimal ratios in a uniform system of [[Anc ...65 KB (8,524 words) - 17:13, 26 February 2025
- | year_start = Before 12th century CE ...of feudal states of Kerala|principality]] on the [[Malabar Coast]] of the Indian subcontinent during the [[Middle Ages]]. It was governed by the Tanur dynas ...55 KB (8,336 words) - 12:08, 13 February 2025
- ...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 ...102 KB (14,064 words) - 21:39, 16 February 2025
- ...[[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 ...123 KB (17,641 words) - 08:50, 18 February 2025
- ...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 ...163 KB (23,416 words) - 11:43, 24 February 2025
- ...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, ...mmad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expanded upon Persian and Indian arithmetic systems. His writings were translated into [[Latin]] by [[Gerard ...180 KB (24,048 words) - 09:26, 28 February 2025
- ...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...246 KB (34,499 words) - 14:19, 19 February 2025