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... discovery of the art of reading the cuneiform or wedge - shaped system of writing . In the study of Babylonian mathematics we begin with the notation of numbers . A vertical wedge stood for 1 , while the characters and signified 10 and ...
... discovery of the art of reading the cuneiform or wedge - shaped system of writing . In the study of Babylonian mathematics we begin with the notation of numbers . A vertical wedge stood for 1 , while the characters and signified 10 and ...
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... discovery was the use of letters . " 5 Aristotle says that mathematics had its birth in Egypt , because there the priestly class had the leisure needful for the study of it . Geometry , in particular , is said by Herodotus , Diodorus ...
... discovery was the use of letters . " 5 Aristotle says that mathematics had its birth in Egypt , because there the priestly class had the leisure needful for the study of it . Geometry , in particular , is said by Herodotus , Diodorus ...
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... discovery is to be ascribed . The Pythagoreans themselves were in the habit of referring every discovery back to the great founder of the sect . This school grew rapidly and gained considerable political ascendency . But the mystic and ...
... discovery is to be ascribed . The Pythagoreans themselves were in the habit of referring every discovery back to the great founder of the sect . This school grew rapidly and gained considerable political ascendency . But the mystic and ...
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... discovery that he sacrificed a hecatomb . Its authenticity is doubted , because the Pythagoreans believed in the transmigration of the soul and opposed , therefore , the shedding of blood . In the later traditions of the Neo - Pythago ...
... discovery that he sacrificed a hecatomb . Its authenticity is doubted , because the Pythagoreans believed in the transmigration of the soul and opposed , therefore , the shedding of blood . In the later traditions of the Neo - Pythago ...
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... discovery of synthetic proofs or solutions . Plato is said to have solved the problem of the duplication of the cube . But the solution is open to the very same objec- tion which he made to the solutions by Archytas , Eudoxus , and ...
... discovery of synthetic proofs or solutions . Plato is said to have solved the problem of the duplication of the cube . But the solution is open to the very same objec- tion which he made to the solutions by Archytas , Eudoxus , and ...
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Page 202 - I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow.
Page 298 - THEOREM If a straight line falling on two other straight lines, make the alternate angles equal to one another, the two straight lines shall be parallel to one another.
Page 21 - The formula states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and altitude.