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In [[mathematics]], an '''icosahedral number''' is a [[figurate number]] that represents an ==History== ...

...ra]] as it was developed and used in [[ancient Egypt]]. [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics]] as discussed here spans a time period ranging from {{abbr|c.|circa}} 3000 ...ence: A Source Book Volume 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics |series=Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society |volume=232 |location=Philadelphia |publ ...

{{short description|Ancient Chinese diagram using the 3,4,5 right triangle to demonstrate the Pythagore ...s one of the earliest known proofs of the Pythagorean theorem and also one of the simplest. The text in ''Zhoubi Suanjing'' accompanying the diagram has ...

In [[mathematics]], a '''dodecahedral number''' is a [[figurate number]] that represents a [ ==History== ...

...des' Measurement of a Circle.jpg|thumb|A page from Archimedes' Measurement of a Circle]] ...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 ...

...n [[music theory]] and in the [[history of mathematics|historical study of mathematics]]. Mathematically, a '''superpartient number''' is a [[ratio]] of the form ...

...of the ''[[Jigu Suanjing]]'' (''Continuation of Ancient Mathematics'') one of the ''[[Ten Computational Canons]]''. ...resented this work to [[Emperor Gaozu of Tang|Li Yuan]], the first emperor of the [[Tang dynasty]], along with a brief biography. ...

{{Short description|Mathematical subset of the Lahun Papyri}} ...tive texts, medical texts, veterinarian texts and six fragments devoted to mathematics.<ref>[http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/lahun/papyri.html The Lahun Papyri] ...

{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian unit of measurement}} ...t Egyptian measure of Seked compared with the slope of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza|Great Pyramid]]]] ...

[[File:Angular_velocity.svg|thumb|A diagram of angular momentum. Showing angular velocity (Scalar) and radius.]] In physics, '''angular mechanics''' is a field of [[mechanics]] which studies [[rotation]]al movement. It studies things such ...

{{About|a rope knot|the mathematical version|Square knot (mathematics)}} | origin=Ancient ...

...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 ...cylinder.svg|right|thumb|The ratio of the volume of a sphere to the volume of its circumscribed cylinder is 2:3, as was determined by Archimedes]] ...

...of land measurement “because the overflow of the Nile caused the boundary of each person’s land to disappear.”}}</ref> ...ians knew how to compute areas of several geometric shapes and the volumes of cylinders and pyramids. ...

...|date=2022 |publisher=Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury |location=New Zealand |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream ...ion, Mathematical Explanation and Notes |journal=Indian Journal of History of Science |date=2006 |volume=41 |issue=1 Supplement |pages=S56-S65 |url=https ...

...Jean-Claude Martzloff|title=Li Shanlan (1811–1882) and Chinese Traditional Mathematics|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|date=September 1992|volume=14|issue= ...itor1-last=Robin Wilson|editor1-first=John J. Watkins|title=Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern|date=2013|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=9780191630637|pages=7 ...

...description|Relates areas of three parallelograms attached to three sides of an arbitrary triangle}} ...e [[Pythagorean theorem]], is named after the Greek mathematician [[Pappus of Alexandria]] (4th century AD), who discovered it. ...

...ncient Astronomy to Modern Signal and Image Processing|journal=Proceedings of the IEEE|date=March 2002|volume=90|issue=3|pages=319–321|doi=10.1109/5.9934 For the computation of {{math|''f''(''a'')}}, Brahmagupta replaces {{math|''D''_''r''}} ...

[[File:Pentagon subdivisions.svg|thumb|260px|Eleven subdivisions of a pentagon]] ...of leaves, the ways of inserting parentheses into a sequence, and the ways of dissecting a convex polygon into smaller polygons by inserting diagonals. T ...

[[File:Hoehensatz2.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|area of grey square = area of grey rectangle: <math> h^2=pq \Leftrightarrow h=\sqrt{pq}</math>]] ...gments it creates on the hypotenuse. It states that the [[geometric mean]] of those two segments equals the altitude. ...

{{Short description|Notable events in the history of geometry}} The following is a timeline of key developments of [[geometry]]: ...