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... of mathematics is one of the large windows through which the philosophic eye looks into past ages and traces the line of intellectual development . ANTIQUITY . THE BABYLONIANS . THE fertile valley of the 4 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS .
... of mathematics is one of the large windows through which the philosophic eye looks into past ages and traces the line of intellectual development . ANTIQUITY . THE BABYLONIANS . THE fertile valley of the 4 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS .
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... lines of the pyramids run north and south , and east and west , but probably only the lines running north and south were determined by astronomical observations . This , coupled with the fact that the word harpedonaptæ , applied to ...
... lines of the pyramids run north and south , and east and west , but probably only the lines running north and south were determined by astronomical observations . This , coupled with the fact that the word harpedonaptæ , applied to ...
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Florian Cajori. 3 geometers , constructed a right triangle upon a given line , by stretching around three pegs a rope consisting of three parts in the ratios 3 : 4 : 5 , and thus forming a right triangle . If this explanation is correct ...
Florian Cajori. 3 geometers , constructed a right triangle upon a given line , by stretching around three pegs a rope consisting of three parts in the ratios 3 : 4 : 5 , and thus forming a right triangle . If this explanation is correct ...
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... lines , and gave to it a basis to work upon . Greek culture , therefore , is not primitive . Not only in mathematics , but also in my thology and art , Hellas owes a debt to older countries . To Egypt Greece is indebted , among other ...
... lines , and gave to it a basis to work upon . Greek culture , therefore , is not primitive . Not only in mathematics , but also in my thology and art , Hellas owes a debt to older countries . To Egypt Greece is indebted , among other ...
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... line , in some of their constructions found in the Ahmes papyrus , but it was left for the Greek philosopher to give ... lines , essentially abstract in its character , while the Egyp- tians studied only the geometry of surfaces and the ...
... line , in some of their constructions found in the Ahmes papyrus , but it was left for the Greek philosopher to give ... lines , essentially abstract in its character , while the Egyp- tians studied only the geometry of surfaces and the ...
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