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...[[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}} ...

...over a field]]. The term ''abstract algebra'' was coined in the early 20th century to distinguish it from older parts of algebra, and more specifically from [ ...et of concepts. This unification occurred in the early decades of the 20th century and resulted in the formal [[axiom]]atic definitions of various [[algebraic ...

...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]], ...

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 ...

...focused on the [[Ptolemy's table of chords|calculation of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric rati ...PA235 235–236]|loc="Appendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) cons ...

...y a special symbol (e.g., an [[Letter (alphabet)|alphabet letter]]), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple [[mathematical problem]]s.<re ...ample, [[Germans|German]] mathematician [[Ludolph van Ceulen]] of the 16th century spent a major part of his life calculating the first 35 digits of pi.<ref>[ ...

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...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 ...

...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 ...

...|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] ...

...] ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]'', and mentions the proposals of German mathematicians [[Carl Anton Bretschneider]] and [[Hermann Hankel]] that Pythagoras may hav ...[[similar figures]]. This was known by [[Hippocrates of Chios]] in the 5th century BC,<ref>Heath, T. L., ''A History of Greek Mathematics'', Oxford University ...

...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> ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...ere attending the County School.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 28 November 1914"}} [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|Germany had invaded Belgium]] on 4{{Nbsp}}August ...