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...humb|upright|[[Galileo]]'s demonstration of the law of the space traversed in case of uniformly varied motion. It is the same demonstration that [[Oresme ...Medieval Science'' (1974) Vol. 1, p. 252.</ref> was discovered in the 14th century by the [[Oxford Calculators]] of [[Merton College]], and was proved by [[Ni ...

| years_active = ca. 14th Century ...s|isbn=978-1-85610-020-5|page=82}}</ref> also called Ziito, fl. fourteenth century) was a court-magician of [[Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia]]. ...

'''Chunwei Song''' is a Chinese mathematician who specializes in [[combinatorics]], [[graph theory]], and [[intellectual history]]. He is a Song received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the [[University of Pennsylvania]], with the dissertation ''Combi ...

* 5th century BC - The [[Zeno's paradoxes]], * 5th century BC - [[Antiphon (orator)|Antiphon]] attempts to [[Squaring the circle|squar ...

{{Short description|Calculation of π by 3rd century mathematician Liu Hui}} ...erence of a circle to its diameter was often taken experimentally as three in China, while [[Zhang Heng]] (78&ndash;139) rendered it as 3.1724 (from the ...

| workplaces = Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences ...=Zhōu Xiàngyǔ}}, born March 1965) is a Chinese mathematician, specializing in [[several complex variables]] and [[complex geometry]]. He is known for his ...

| fields = [[Mathematics]] [[Computer Science]] [[Cryptography]] ...url=https://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/kahrobaei.html|title=Department of Computer Science, Queens College, CUNY|website=www.cs.qc.cuny.edu|access-date=2024-06-28|arc ...

...2005) was an Indian [[historian of science|historian]] of [[Indian science|science]], particularly the [[Indian astronomy|astronomy]] and [[Indian mathematics ....pdf Critical Evidence to Fix the Native Place of Āryabhat̟a-I], [[Current Science]] 93(8)</ref> ...

...Indian mathematician [[Narayana Pandita (mathematician)|Narayana Pandita]] in 1356. It was an arithmetical treatise alongside the other algebraic treatis ...14 chapters (''vyavahāra''):<ref name=mii27>M. D. Srinivas, ''Mathematics In India'', Lecture 27.</ref> ...

...Willard for the 2008 University at Albany President’s Award for Excellence in Research. | field = [[Computer Science]] ...

[[File:四元自乘演段图.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Illustrations in Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns]] ...>{{cite book|last=Elman|first=Benjamin A.|title=On their own terms science in China, 1550-1900|year=2005|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Camb ...

...Middle Ages]] until the development of [[gunpowder]] artillery in the 14th century rendered them mostly obsolete. ...onable transition would involve the recognition of the properties of sinew in previously existing tension devices and other bows. Torsion based weaponry ...

...multiplied by a selected radius and given as an integer. In this table, as in [[Aryabhata's sine table|Aryabhata's earlier table]], ''R'' is taken as 216 The table is [[character encoding|encoded]] in the letters of the [[Sanskrit]] alphabet using the [[Katapayadi system]], g ...

...g certain other letters as valueless, this system provides the flexibility in forming meaningful words out of numbers which can be easily remembered. ...Sanskrit: कटपयादि) system is from ''Grahacāraṇibandhana'' by [[Haridatta]] in 683 [[Common Era|CE]].<ref name="astro">Sreeramamula Rajeswara Sarma, THE ' ...

In mathematics, the '''arctangent series''', traditionally called '''Gregory's This [[convergent series|series converges]] in the [[complex number|complex]] disk <math>|x| \leq 1,</math> except for <ma ...

...of the [[Codex Gigas]], with biblical alphabets: Hebrew, Greek and Latin, in addition: Ethiopic and Coptic]] ...age|Gothic]] and [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] translations are rarely cited in critical editions. Omitted are those of the translations of the first mille ...

...of marteloio was commonly used by [[Mediterranean]] navigators during the 14th and 15th centuries, before the development of [[celestial navigation|astron The [[etymology]] comes from the [[Venetian language]]. In his 1436 atlas, [[Venice|Venetian]] captain and cartographer [[Andrea Bianc ...

...ty (mathematics)|incommensurable]]'', meaning that they share no "measure" in common, that is, there is no length ("the measure"), no matter how short, t ...mbers]. by [[Clifford A. Pickover]]. URL retrieved 24 October 2007.</ref> In fact, all square roots of [[natural number]]s, other than of [[square numbe ...

In mathematics, '''Vincent's theorem'''—named after [[Alexandre Joseph Hidulph ...pear in any of the classical books on the theory of equations (of the 20th century), except for [[J. V. Uspensky|Uspensky]]'s book. Two variants of this theor ...

...t]], and despite its size and price it remained on the market for nearly a century because it outperformed nearly all other slide rules. ...dheld [[Curta]] mechanical calculator became available which also competed in convenience and price. However, for scientific calculations the Fuller rema ...