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Greek Mathematicians
Ancient Greek mathematics refers to the history of mathematical ideas and texts in Ancient Greece during classical and late antiquity, mostly from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD. Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread around the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, from Anatolia to Italy and North Africa, but were united by Greek culture and the Greek language. The development of mathematics as a theoretical discipline and the use of deductive reasoning in proofs is an important difference between Greek mathematics and those of preceding civilizations. The early history of Greek mathematics is obscure, and traditional narratives of mathematical theorems found before the fifth century BC are regarded as later inventions. It is now generally accepted that treatises of deductive mathematics written in Greek began circulating around the mid-fifth century BC, but the earliest complete work on the subject is the '' Elements'', written during the Hellenistic period. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pythagoras Euclid
Pythagoras of Samos (; BC) was an ancient Ionians, Ionian Ancient Greek philosophy, Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. Modern scholars disagree regarding Pythagoras's education and influences, but most agree that he travelled to Crotone, Croton in southern Italy around 530 BC, where he founded a school in which initiates were allegedly sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, asceticism, ascetic lifestyle. In antiquity, Pythagoras was credited with Greek mathematics, mathematical and scientific discoveries, such as the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean tuning, the Platonic solids, five regular solids, the Proportionality (mathematics), theory of proportions, the Spherical Earth, sphericity of the Earth, the identity of the Phosphorus (morning star), morning and Hesperus, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
