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... ARABS . 84 • 100 EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES Introduction of Roman Mathematics Translation of Arabic Manuscripts . The First Awakening and its Sequel MODERN EUROPE · 117 117 . 124 · . 128 • 138 THE RENAISSANCE 139 VIETA TO DESCARTES ...
... ARABS . 84 • 100 EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES Introduction of Roman Mathematics Translation of Arabic Manuscripts . The First Awakening and its Sequel MODERN EUROPE · 117 117 . 124 · . 128 • 138 THE RENAISSANCE 139 VIETA TO DESCARTES ...
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... Arabic notation " ; they will marvel at the thousands of years which elapsed before people had even thought of introducing into the numeral notation that Columbus - egg- the zero ; they will find it astounding that it should have taken ...
... Arabic notation " ; they will marvel at the thousands of years which elapsed before people had even thought of introducing into the numeral notation that Columbus - egg- the zero ; they will find it astounding that it should have taken ...
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... Arabic translation , made about 1250 , was discovered . The eighth book has never been found . In 1710 Halley of Oxford published the Greek text of the first four books and a Latin translation of the remain- ing three , together with ...
... Arabic translation , made about 1250 , was discovered . The eighth book has never been found . In 1710 Halley of Oxford published the Greek text of the first four books and a Latin translation of the remain- ing three , together with ...
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... Arabic . The book on Contacts , as restored by Vieta , contains the so - called " Apollonian Problem " : Given three circles , to find a fourth which shall touch the three . Euclid , Archimedes , and Apollonius brought geometry to as ...
... Arabic . The book on Contacts , as restored by Vieta , contains the so - called " Apollonian Problem " : Given three circles , to find a fourth which shall touch the three . Euclid , Archimedes , and Apollonius brought geometry to as ...
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... , such as DG , will be divided by AH so that DK : DG = KJ : JG . Menelaus of Alexandria ( about 98 A.D. ) was the author of Sphærica , a work extant in Hebrew and Arabic , but not in Greek . In it he proves the theorems on THE GREEKS . 55.
... , such as DG , will be divided by AH so that DK : DG = KJ : JG . Menelaus of Alexandria ( about 98 A.D. ) was the author of Sphærica , a work extant in Hebrew and Arabic , but not in Greek . In it he proves the theorems on THE GREEKS . 55.
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