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{{Short description|Chinese mathematician (580–640)}} ...aotong''' (王孝通) (AD 580–640), also known as Wang Hs'iao-t'ung, was a Chinese mathematician, calendarist, politician, and writer of the early Tang dynast ...

...on they determine that there are <math>2^6=64</math> possible hexagrams. A Chinese [[monk]] also may have counted the number of configurations to a game simil ..., and would eventually become known as [[Pascal's triangle]]. Later, in [[Medieval England]], [[campanology]] provided examples of what is now known as [[Hami ...

...d compute with them, without knowing how they can be defined; this is what mathematicians and physicists did during several centuries before the first formal definit ...y determined.<ref>T. K. Puttaswamy, "The Accomplishments of Ancient Indian Mathematicians", pp. 410–11.&nbsp;In: {{citation |title = Mathematics Across Cultures: The ...

...[[recreational mathematics]] literature in the late 19th century. Several mathematicians have formulated different generalizations of the puzzle to numbers other th ...y'' in 1859,{{r|nasbar|tmm}} and a version with 17 elephants and a claimed Chinese origin was included in ''Hanky Panky: A Book of Conjuring Tricks'' (London, ...

...nd the immediate [[Solar System]]. They also discovered many concepts in [[Chinese mathematics|mathematics]]. The list below contains discoveries which found ...ts representing 11 pm to 1 am (left) and 5 am to 7 am (right); the ancient Chinese, although discussing it in supernatural terms, acknowledged [[circadian rhy ...

...his is a simple idea, and it is likely that it was known by Old Babylonian mathematicians, although no cuneiform mathematical text has yet been found where this idea ...ggested in the third century CE in Zhao Shuang's commentary on the ancient Chinese ''[[Zhoubi Suanjing]]'' (''Gnomon of the Zhou'').<ref name=Høyrup261>{{harv ...

...on [[Chinese history|Chinese]] and [[Mongolian history]], opened the first Chinese-language school in Russia *'''[[Mikhail Tikhomirov]]''', leading specialist in medieval Russian [[paleography]], published the ''[[Complete Collection of Russian C ...

...e]] within it,<ref name="HoSM">{{cite web |title=Science and technology in Medieval Islam |url=http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/scienceislam_education/docs/Science_and_ ...ian influence on Islamic science|Christian influences on the Islamic world|Chinese influences on Islamic pottery}} ...

...pright=.85|''Woman teaching geometry''. Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of [[Euclid's Elements]], ({{Circa|1310}}).]] [[Indian mathematics|Indian]] mathematicians also made many important contributions in geometry. The ''[[Shatapatha Brah ...

...eriod]] to solve specific problems in fields like [[geometry]]. Subsequent mathematicians examined general techniques to solve equations independent of their specifi ...ntury from [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and medieval [[Latin language|Latin]].<ref>{{multiref | {{harvnb|Cresswell|2010|p=[https ...

...''[[The Flagellation of Christ]]''. His work on geometry influenced later mathematicians and artists including [[Luca Pacioli]] in his ''De divina proportione'' and ...ese artists from the first or second centuries until the 18th century. The Chinese acquired the technique from India, which acquired it from Ancient Rome. Obl ...

...modern formal logic, which has its roots in the work of late 19th-century mathematicians such as [[Gottlob Frege]]. Today, the most commonly used system is [[classi ...fn |Lagerlund |2018}} Bottom row: [[William of Ockham]], a major figure of medieval scholarly thought;{{sfn |Spade |Panaccio |2019}} and [[Gottlob Frege]], one ...

==Science in ancient and Medieval Iran (Persia)== {{See also|Islamic science|Inventions in medieval Islam|Timeline of Islamic science and technology|Academy of Gundishapur}} ...