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...ity''' (after the Greek [[Ancient Greek astronomy|astronomer]] and [[Greek mathematics|mathematician]] [[Aristarchus of Samos]]; c. 310 – c. 230 BCE) is a law of {{Ancient Greek mathematics}} ...

The '''null sign''' (∅) is often used in [[mathematics]] for denoting the [[empty set]]. The same letter in [[linguistics]] repres ...rt of the [[Greek alphabet]]. It sometimes take the form of {{unichar|03D5|Greek Phi Symbol}} and is used as a sign in different fields of studies. The {{un ...

...ed in addition to straightedge and compass. The theorem is named after the Greek mathematician [[Dinostratus]] who proved it around 350 BC when he attempted * [[Thomas Little Heath]]: ''A History of Greek Mathematics. Volume 1. From Thales to Euclid''. Clarendon Press 1921 (Nachdruck Elibron ...

...n [[music theory]] and in the [[history of mathematics|historical study of mathematics]]. "Superpartient" comes from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ἐπιμερής ''epimeres'' "containing a whole and a fraction," literally "sup ...

...st = Heath| first = Thomas Little| year = 1921| title = A History of Greek Mathematics| isbn = 978-0-543-96877-7| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zGIYbEtz ...ation| last=Heath| first=Thomas Little| year=1931| title=A Manual of Greek Mathematics| page=146| isbn=978-0-486-43231-1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_H ...

...of as a generalization of the [[Pythagorean theorem]], is named after the Greek mathematician [[Pappus of Alexandria]] (4th century AD), who discovered it. *Howard Eves: ''Pappus's Extension of the Pythagorean Theorem''.The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 51, No. 7 (November 1958), pp. 544–546 ([https://www.jst ...

...e [[surface area]] of a [[sphere]] and the volume of the contained [[ball (mathematics)|ball]] and the analogous values for a [[cylinder (geometry)|cylinder]], an ...-5|page=88}}</ref> A [[Archimedes Palimpsest|palimpsest]] stolen from the Greek Orthodox Church in the early 20th century, which reappeared at auction in 1 ...

...three squares, and to the Pythagorean theorem. Arabic speakers writing in Greek would often mistakenly assume the other sense of the word was intended, and ...ok |date=2007 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=477}} (Chapter 4 Mathematics in India, Kim Plofker)</ref> There is a legend that Bhaskara's proof of the ...

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

*S. Gottwald: ''The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics''. Springer, 2012, {{ISBN|9789401169820}}, pp. [https://books.google.com/bo {{Ancient Greek mathematics}} ...

...formal mathematical and philosophical reasoning, as well as in debate. In mathematics, the technique is called ''[[proof by contradiction]]''. In formal logic, t ==Greek philosophy== ...

*S. Gottwald: ''The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics''. Springer, 2012, {{ISBN|9789401169820}}, pp. [https://books.google.com/bo {{Ancient Greek mathematics}} ...

...ayers—the {{angbr|¿}} character is one layer above the {{angbr|?}}, or the Greek {{angbr|α}} is above the {{angbr|a}} character. Neo uses a total of six lay # Greek lowercase letters ...

...ng|grc|σ}}, word-final lowercase {{lang|grc|ς}}) is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet. == Mathematics == ...

...://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4939-3780-6 |title=Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam |year=2016 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4939-3780-6|la {{main|Greek numerals}} ...

...sfnp|Chrisomalis|2010|p=185}} Alphabetic numeral systems originated with [[Greek numerals]] around 600 BC and became largely extinct by the 16th century.{{s ...History of the Greek alphabet#Standardization – the Ionic alphabet|archaic Greek script]] used in [[Ionia]].{{sfnp|Chrisomalis|2010|p=135–138}} ...

=== Possible? Early mathematics === ...onian mathematics|Babylonian]] and [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics|Egyptian mathematics]] solving quadratic equations ...

==In mathematics== ...-date=2024-03-09 }}</ref> which is in equivalence with the number of [[E8 (mathematics)#E8 root system|root vectors of E₈]] in the eighth dimension.<re ...

...[Neo-Latin]] borrowing from Greek, and the word form ''analysin'' uses the Greek accusative. {{cite book |last=Calinger |first=Ronald |date=2016 |title=Leon ...is on the concepts of [[variable (mathematics)|variable]]s and [[function (mathematics)|function]]s. Chapters 2 and 3 are concerned with the transformation of fun ...

...contemporary-mathematics/pages/2-2-compound-statements |title=Contemporary Mathematics |date=March 22, 2023 |publisher=OpenStax |chapter=2.2. Compound Statements} ...pha|These definitions follow the common practice of using [[Greek alphabet|Greek letters]] as [[metalogic]]al symbols which may stand for symbols in a forma ...