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* 5th century BC – [[Hippocrates of Chios]] utilizes [[Lune (mathematics)|lunes]] in an a * 5th century BC – [[Apastamba]], author of the Apastamba [[Sulba Sutras|Sulba Sutra]], a ...

...ompanist in a concert of opera music by [[Richard Wagner]] at the [[Hearst Greek Theatre]] in 1910,{{r|opera}} and completed a master's degree at the univer [[Category:19th-century American mathematicians]] ...

...eology]] and in mathematics. He was fluent in [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Hebrew]], was well-acquainted with [[Romance languages|Romance]] an had been known from the times of [[Diophantus]]. At the end of the 17th century it explained why the [[norm (mathematics)|norm]] of the product of two [[co ...

...oger B. Nelsen: ''A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century''. The Mathematical Association of America, 2015, {{ISBN|9780883853580}}, p ...olars have speculated that the result may have already been known to Greek mathematicians during antiquity.<ref>Howard Eves: ''Great Moments in Mathematics (before 1 ...

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

...tudy in [[Europe]] dates to the work of [[Leonardo Fibonacci]] in the 13th century AD, which introduced [[Arab world|Arabian]] and [[India|Indian]] ideas to t ...es comes from problem 79 of the [[Rhind papyrus]], which dates to the 16th century BC. The problem concerns a certain [[geometric series]], and has similarit ...

...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 ...

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 ...

...nd, if so, how this could be done.<ref name=":1" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Georg Cantor]] enlarged the mathematical study of infinity by studying [ ===Early Greek=== ...

Based on ancient Greek methods, an ''axiomatic system'' is a formal description of a way to establ ...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...

...ity]], which keep their own archives). Most of the material dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, with few photographs and no sound or video recordings. ...]]), prepared an index of the collection that was still used into the 20th century. He was succeeded by [[Simon Bailey (archivist)|Simon Bailey]], who was the ...

...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 ...

...mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> * c. 1800 BC&nbsp;– [[Berlin Papyrus 6619]] (Egypt, 19th dynasty) contains a quadratic equation and its solution.<ref name="buffalo1 ...

{{Short description|17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994}} ...wn as a [[conjecture]] rather than a theorem. After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|the first successful proof]] was ...

*[[Parmenides]] (530&nbsp;BC–460&nbsp;BC), İtalian-Greek philosopher, defender of rationalism in philosophy ...tician, author of many of the best books on arithmetic written in the 15th Century ...

...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 ...

*'''[[Andrey Bolotov]]''', major 18th-century [[agriculturist]], discovered [[dichogamy]], pioneered [[cross-pollination] *'''[[Sergei Chetverikov]]''', pioneer of [[modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]] ...

...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleitos#Canon of Polykle ...

...it the scientific name '''Pithecanthropus erectus''', a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning ''upright ape-man''. ...|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 ...

...r designed by a commission assembled by Pope Gregory XIII in the sixteenth century."}}{{efn|Many countries that use other calendars for religious purposes use ...ays; when Russia and Greece did so (for their civil calendars) in the 20th century, the jump was 13 days. For other countries and territories, see [[List of a ...