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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]] ...

{{Short description|Greek mathematician (born 1951)}} | nationality = [[Greece|Greek]] ...

...' (1962), consisting of a collection of bedtime stories linked through the Greek legend of [[Sisyphus]].{{r|cn64|adb|c10}} [[Category:20th-century German mathematicians]] ...

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

...f 1997. {{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} and was translated into Chinese, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, and Russian.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011 ...rought to the traditional approach by scientists like [[Isaac Newton]] and mathematicians such as [[Anatoly Fomenko]]. A modified Romanian version appeared in 2009. ...

...ich 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 ...

...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 ...

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 ...

...mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> ...the [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus|Rhind papyrus]] which dates to the 16th century BCE.<ref name="Biggs">{{cite book ...

...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 ...

{{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 ...

...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 ...

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

...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 ...

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 ...

...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 ...

...pologies after a letter of the alphabet to which they have a resemblance. Greek alphabet letters can also be used in this way, for example Π ([[Pi (letter) ...the same elements repeated over and over. It was not until the late 20th century that tools for analysing infinite networks with an arbitrary topology becam ...