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... probability , also familiar with the notation of numbers . Most surprising , in this connection , is the fact that Sumerian inscriptions disclose the use , not only of the above decimal system , but also of a sexagesimal one . The ...
... probability , also familiar with the notation of numbers . Most surprising , in this connection , is the fact that Sumerian inscriptions disclose the use , not only of the above decimal system , but also of a sexagesimal one . The ...
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... solids , namely the tetraedron , octaedron , icosaedron , and the cube . These solids were , in all probability , known to the Egyptians , excepting , perhaps , the icosaedron . In Pythagorean philos- THE GREEKS . 21.
... solids , namely the tetraedron , octaedron , icosaedron , and the cube . These solids were , in all probability , known to the Egyptians , excepting , perhaps , the icosaedron . In Pythagorean philos- THE GREEKS . 21.
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... probability was framed by Eudoxus : " Analysis is the obtaining of the thing sought by assuming it and so reasoning up to an admitted truth ; synthesis is the obtaining of the thing sought by reasoning up to the inference and proof of ...
... probability was framed by Eudoxus : " Analysis is the obtaining of the thing sought by assuming it and so reasoning up to an admitted truth ; synthesis is the obtaining of the thing sought by reasoning up to the inference and proof of ...
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... probability the inventor . A scholiast on Euclid , thought to be Proclus , says further that Eudoxus practically invented the whole of Euclid's fifth book . Eudoxus also found two mean proportionals between two given lines , but the ...
... probability the inventor . A scholiast on Euclid , thought to be Proclus , says further that Eudoxus practically invented the whole of Euclid's fifth book . Eudoxus also found two mean proportionals between two given lines , but the ...
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... probability that more extended communications actually did take place . Better informed are we regarding the way in which Greek science , in successive waves , dashed upon and penetrated Arabic soil . In Syria the sciences , especially ...
... probability that more extended communications actually did take place . Better informed are we regarding the way in which Greek science , in successive waves , dashed upon and penetrated Arabic soil . In Syria the sciences , especially ...
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