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- ...[[Leonhard Euler]], who published an explicit version of the formula, and Descartes, whose ''De solidorum elementis'' includes a result from which the formula ''Descartes on Polyhedra'' was written by [[Pasquale Joseph Federico]] (1902–1982), and ...7 KB (1,029 words) - 17:36, 12 August 2023
- ...Thales]], [[Euclid]], and [[Johannes Kepler]], and the discovery by [[René Descartes]] of a polyhedral version of the [[Gauss–Bonnet theorem]] (later seen to be ...the book's discussion of similar ideas in the earlier works of Kepler and Descartes.){{r|martin}} The birth of topology is conventionally marked by an earlier ...8 KB (1,128 words) - 09:02, 5 December 2024
- {{About|a polygon|megaton(ne)|Ton|and|Tonne}} ...ref>{{Cite book |last=Dugopolski |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l8tWAAAAYAAJ |title=College Algebra and Trigonometry |date=1999 |publish ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 12:36, 28 October 2024
- ...math>.<ref name="Beckmann"/> In his 1637 book ''[[La Géométrie]]'', [[René Descartes]] classified curves either as "geometric", admitting a precise geometric co | pages = [https://books.google.com/books?id=XqqUUSyz138C&pg=PA94 94–95] ...22 KB (3,342 words) - 07:43, 1 March 2025
- The Cartesian product is named after [[René Descartes]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Cartesian |date=2009 |website=Merriam-Webster.com ...poration|year=1986|isbn=9780486652528|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CmzFx9rB_FcC&pg=PA41}}</ref> ...27 KB (4,190 words) - 05:44, 28 February 2025
- ...perfect being. In the early 18th century, [[Gottfried Leibniz]] augmented Descartes' ideas in an attempt to prove that a "supremely perfect" being is a coheren ...01">{{cite book |author=Kenny |first=Anthony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTymsjJfKqAC&pg=PA187 |title=The Oxford illustrated history of Western p ...75 KB (11,302 words) - 18:12, 25 February 2025
- ...ry and the ancient science of [[geometrical optics]]), courtesy of Newton, Descartes and the Dutchmen Snell and Huygens. In the 18th and 19th centuries [[Joseph ...en by ingenious application of existing mathematics, or, as in the case of Descartes and Newton (with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]), by inventing new mathemati ...24 KB (3,242 words) - 06:59, 18 February 2025
- ...n – An Illustrated Biography | year=1984 | pages=255–256 | publisher=Wings Books | location=New York | isbn=0-517-14718-1 }}</ref> Einstein's first lecture * Concept of space in mathematics (by [[René Descartes]]) ...16 KB (2,241 words) - 22:31, 27 January 2025
- ...ygens book on the pendulum clock 1673|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UdGBy8iLpocC&pg=PA33|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9780080457444}}.</ref> ...m Clock of Christiaan Huygens|date=2007|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hands-on-history/cycloid-pendulum-clock-of-christiaan-huygens/DB7546E162CB0 ...29 KB (4,152 words) - 19:57, 18 February 2025
- This is a '''list of books about [[polyhedron|polyhedra]]'''. ...sue=21|journal=Science News|jstor=3977680|pages=335–350|title=Science News Books|volume=144}} Includes a brief review of ''Unit Origami: Multidimensional Tr ...58 KB (7,543 words) - 00:01, 2 December 2024
- ...homson Corporation|Thomson Brooks/Cole]], 2006), [https://books.google.com/books?id=_cIT_pRdfJIC&pg=PA844 p. 844].</ref> ...or the parabola). The rectangular hyperbola, however, is instead symmetric about the lines {{math|''y'' {{=}} ''x''}} and {{math|''y'' {{=}} −''x''}}. ...69 KB (10,686 words) - 03:30, 20 January 2025
- {{About||the kind of algebraic structure|Algebra over a field|other uses}} ...imal Classification]]<ref>{{harvnb|Higham|2019|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ferEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA296 296]}}</ref> and subclass QA 150{{hyphen}}272.5 in ...139 KB (19,646 words) - 08:22, 1 March 2025
- ...ve-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220094741/https://books.google.com/books?id=1m11BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|url-status=live}}</ref> Geometry is, along with [[ar ...ve-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901183207/https://books.google.com/books?id=ez6H5Ho6E3cC|url-status=live}}</ref> Geometry also has applications in a ...102 KB (14,064 words) - 21:39, 16 February 2025
- {{about||other uses of "constant" in mathematics|Constant (mathematics)}} ...The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number |publisher=Broadway Books |year=2002 |isbn=0-7679-0815-5 |location=New York}}</ref> [[Kepler]] proved ...40 KB (5,252 words) - 01:56, 2 January 2025
- ...81-9421-6 |volume=290 |pages=291–300 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAswiGbShCAC&pg=PA291}}</ref> ...erest in science was stimulated by his teachers at secondary school and by books, in particular ''[[The Mysterious Universe]]'' by [[James Hopwood Jeans]] a ...99 KB (14,178 words) - 22:33, 10 February 2025
- ...f Birds]]<nowiki>''</nowiki>.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61diDwAAQBAJ&q=Codex+on+the+Flight+of+Birds+creative+commons+images&pg=P ...layer")...}}</ref><ref name=":57">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmOCDwAAQBAJ|title=The World of Beretta: An International Legend|last=Wi ...246 KB (34,499 words) - 14:19, 19 February 2025