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- ...was probably written "near the beginning of the second quarter of the 7th century CE, if not earlier."<ref name="Gupta"/> Brahmagupta was one of the first to Mathematicians prior to Brahmagupta used a simple [[linear interpolation]] formula. The l ...7 KB (929 words) - 23:10, 25 November 2023
- * 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 ...12 KB (1,511 words) - 10:15, 8 February 2025
- ...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
- ...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
- ...r Spiegel]]'',{{r|derspiegel42}} ''[[New Zealand Herald]]'',{{r|nz42}} ''[[Indian Express]]'',{{r|ind42}} ''[[Der Standard]]'',{{r|derstand42}} ''[[Las Provi ...presentations as sums of three cubes of non-negative integers. In the 19th century, [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] and collaborators compiled tables of solution ...34 KB (4,230 words) - 16:16, 3 September 2024
- ...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
- ...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 ...139 KB (19,646 words) - 08:22, 1 March 2025
- ...condary-school (grades 6 to 12) courses in mathematics reads: Pre-Algebra (7th or 8th grade), Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calculus, and Calculus ...school geometry: evolution of the two-column proof in the early twentieth century |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020264906740 |journal=Edu ...124 KB (16,475 words) - 05:56, 1 January 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
- ...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