41. Greek Mathematics (from Mathematics, History Of) --  Encyclopædia Britannica greek mathematics (from mathematics, history of) Critical editions of Greek mathematical texts include e The Thirteen Books of Euclid s Elements /e , http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=66058

42. Survival And Influence Of Greek Mathematics (from Mathematics, History Of) --  Survival and influence of greek mathematics (from mathematics, history of) Notable in the closing phase of greek mathematics were Pappus (early 4th century http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=65989

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Sample Proofs and Pythagoras - Greek Mathematics Worksheet Reading Comprehension Worksheets edHelper.com Subscribers: Build a printable worksheet with the complete story and puzzles Build a proofreading activity With just one subscription, you will have access to the math, spelling, vocabulary, and critical thinking worksheets! Sign up now for the subscriber materials! Proofs and Pythagoras - Greek Mathematics By Colleen Messina In the high mountains of Greece in the northeastern part of the Mediterranean, a civilization was born that influenced the world for centuries. Ancient Greece made great strides in the areas of art, philosophy, and politics, and its civilization lasted from approximately 2000 BC to 300 BC. Greece also produced some of the finest mathematical minds that ever pondered numbers. The Greeks were the first people of the ancient world who systematically studied geometry, which is the study of the size and shape of an object. While the first surveyors of Egypt understood practical elements of geometry, the Greeks asked why these applications worked. The Greeks wrote down rules for geometry that verified the observations of other ancient mathematicians. The Greek language formed the basis of some of the mathematical words we use today. The word geometry comes from a Greek word for "earth measuring." Another modern word that comes from Greek is arithmetic, which comes from

44. A History Of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1 By Subject Science and Mathematics General Science pad. Click to enlarge pad A History of greek mathematics, Vol. 1 http://store.doverpublications.com/0486240738.html

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46. Read This: The Shaping Of Deduction In Greek Mathematics Read This! The MAA Online book review column review of The Shaping of Deduction in greek mathematics, by Reviel Netz. http://www.maa.org/reviews/netz.html

Search MAA Online MAA Home Read This! The MAA Online book review column The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics A study in cognitive history by Reviel Netz Reviewed by Christian Marinus Taisbak Reviel Netz has written an stimulating book about diagrams and mathematics, telling us facts that we all know, but hardly ever thought of. Thus he sets himself in the best of company, for isn't that what Euclid did from the very first proposition in the Elements? "The diagram is the metonym of mathematics" is RN's main claim. To understand what he means by that, think of two typical situations in the circus of conferences: if a philosopher or historian gives a talk, he will read aloud for half an hour, facing his audience without moving from his chair. If a mathematician gives a talk, he will dance around the platform talking to the blackboard while writing figures and letters on it, most of the time ignoring his audience and concentrating on his written deductions as they emerge out of sheer necessity. Years ago David Fowler (of Plato's Academy ) coined a motto: "Greek mathematics is to draw a figure and tell a story about it." RN has widened and deepened this into "Deductive mathematics grew out of the Greeks drawing lettered diagrams and telling stories by means of them, not only about them." The diagram and the argument live in such a close symbiosis that one cannot be understood without the other. The diagram is the metonym of mathematics.

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Search MAA Online MAA Home Read This! The MAA Online book review column The Mathematics Of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction (Second Edition) by David Fowler Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa Most mathematicians who know anything about the history of their subject know the standard story about Greek mathematics. David Fowler describes that story like this: The early Pythagoreans based their mathematics on commensurable magnitudes (or on rational numbers, or on common fractions m/n), but their discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability (or the irrationality of the square root of 2) showed that this was inadequate. This provoked problems in the foundation of mathematics that were not resolved before the discovery of the proportion theory that we find in Book V of Euclid's Elements (p. 356). As he points out, we have all heard, and some of us have told, that story. It may be somewhat surprising, then, to discover that many, if not most, historians of ancient mathematics disbelieve some or all of this story. In The Mathematics of Plato's Academy , David Fowler gives a convincing account of the reasons for rejecting the standard story, and offers a very interesting alternative reconstruction of the history of early Greek mathematics.

48. C. 4th Greek Mathematics Reading. BL van der Waerden, Science Awakening, 165190. R. Netz, The Shaping of Deduction in greek mathematics, 272-311. On to Day 18. http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/323/Day17.html

Day 17: 4th century Greek mathematics Summary Development of mathematics in the 4th century up to Alexander. Who developed mathematics? How many mathematicians were there? Where did they live? How did they communicate? What topics interested them? We will pay particular attention to Theaetetus and Eudoxus. In the readings, look especially at the ideas of ratio and proportion. Reading B.L. van der Waerden, Science Awakening R. Netz, The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics On to Day 18 Up to Ancient and Classical Mathematics Last modified: 27 October 2003 Duncan J. Melville Comments to dmelville@stlawu.edu

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Day 26: Exam 2 Coverage This second exam will cover the material since the first exam. That is, Greek and Hellenistic mathematics. Some of the topics you should be familiar with are: geography of the Mediterranean littoral: Miletus, Samos, Athens, Alexandria, Syracuse, Pergamum; dates at which various centers flourished: Plato's Academy, Alexandria; location, date, sources and significance of the contributions of: Plato, Eudoxus, Theaetetus, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius; Greek numerical systems; 'fractions'; Greek arithmetic and the abacus; arithmetical tables; Pythagorean number theory; incommensurability: side and diagonal arguments; classification of 'irrationals'; numbers and magnitudes; ratio and proportion; axiomatic presentation of mathematics; Platonic mathematical philosophy: the nature of forms; the Platonic curriculum: use and purpose of mathematics; actual usage and purpose of mathematics in the classical world; Netz's analysis of classical mathematics and mathematicians; sources and transmission in the classical world: how mathematicians learned and corresponded;

50. ISHM | Articles greek mathematics by Maria Fragoulopoulou. •, Useful Weblinks on History of Mathematical Sciences by Man Mohan. More Articles http://www.indianshm.com/articles/show.php?id=000065

51. 10.8. Euclid (330?-275? B.C.) This 13 volume work is a compilation of greek mathematics and geometry. It is unknown how much if any This format helped standardize greek mathematics. http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/euclid.html

10.8. Euclid (330?-275? B.C.) IRA Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematician of all time. His prize work, Elements , was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians. Very little is known about the life of Euclid. Both the dates and places of his birth and death are unknown. It is believed that he was educated at Plato's academy in Athens and stayed there until he was invited by Ptolemy I to teach at his newly founded university in Alexandria. There, Euclid founded the school of mathematics and remained there for the rest of his life. As a teacher, he was probably one of the mentors to Archimedes Personally, all accounts of Euclid describe him as a kind, fair, patient man who quickly helped and praised the works of others. However, this did not stop him from engaging in sarcasm. One story relates that one of his students complained that he had no use for any of the mathematics he was learning. Euclid quickly called to his slave to give the boy a coin because "he must make gain out of what he learns." Another story relates that Ptolemy asked the mathematician if there was some easier way to learn geometry than by learning all the theorems. Euclid replied, "There is no royal road to geometry" and sent the king to study. Euclid's fame comes from his writings, especially his masterpiece

52. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Is Greek Mathematics The *real* T greek mathematics was not so much to do with axiomatization (their own work In this sense, greek mathematics represents enormous progress. By this I do http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/nov98/0063.html

[HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing? Moshe' Machover moshe.machover@kcl.ac.uk Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:55:50 GMT Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Victor Steinbok: "Re: [HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing?" Previous message: Eric Schechter: "[HM] Is [our system] the *real* thing?" Next in thread: Glen Van Brummelen: "Re: [HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing?" At 2:37 pm -0600 5/11/98, Janet D. Sisson wrote: [snip] It seems to me that the great and unique contribution of classical Greek mathematics is not specifically the axiomatic method but, more generally, the idea of proof. To return to the starting point of this discussionmy guess is that the affinity that Hardy and Littlewood felt with classical Greek mathematics was not so much to do with axiomatization (their own work was certainly quite remote from this!) but with the more general notions of proof and rigour. Of course, the idea that mathematical propositions can and *should* be established by conclusive argument, by proof, mayif taken to its ultimate conclusionlead to axiomatization. But the achievements of classical Greek

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[HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing? Julio Gonzalez Cabillon jgc@chasque.apc.org Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:08:15 -0200 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Robert Tragesser: "[HM] Babbage,Theory of Possible Machines: A Gap?" Previous message: Robert Tragesser: "Re: [HM] Motivations of Turing, Church, Kleene, Post" Next in thread: Glen Van Brummelen: "Re: [HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing?" Dear Colleagues, On July 1, 1998, Sherman Stein asked: "Does anyone know who said something like "I would welcome Archimedes as a colleague?" I would like to know the exact reference. Perhaps it was G. H. Hardy." Antreas P. Hatzipolakis replied: "It was J. E. Littlewood" and provided the following reference: "The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still 'real' to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand; as Littlewood said to me once, they are not clever schoolboys

54. The Golden Age Of Greek Mathematics THE GOLDEN AGE OF greek mathematics. The Death of Alexander the Grat led to internal strife but by 306BC control of the Egyptian portion of the empire was http://scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/university/scit/modules/mm2217/gagm.htm

THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREEK MATHEMATICS The Death of Alexander the Grat led to internal strife but by 306BC control of the Egyptian portion of the empire was in the hands of Ptolemy 1. He established a school at Alexandria and Euclid became a teacher there. 5 works of Euclid have survived ' Elements ', 'Data', 'Division of Figures', Phaenomena' and 'Optics'. Euclid was a good teacher - no new discovery is attributed to him, he just wrote 'Elements' as a textbook. University students were being presented with a textbook ('Elements') which gave them the fundamentals of elementary mathematics (geometry and algebra). 'Elements' is divided into 13 books of which the first half dozen were at elementary plane geometry next 3 on numbers, book X on incommensurables and the last 3 on solid geometry. Euclid's 'Elements' - Book 1 The book opens with a list of 23 definitions. Definitions do not really define because they use words which are no better known than the word being defined. eg. The Euclidean definition of a plane angle as "the inclination to one another of 2 lines in a plane which meet one another and do not lie in a straight line" is not very good because inclination has not being previously defined and is not better known than the word "angle". Following the definitions Euclid listed 5 postulates and 5 common notions (axioms).

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58. ¥±. The Greek Mathematics : Demonstrative Geometry However, greek mathematics was remarkable theoretically, but unremarkable in The first three centuries of greek mathematics, commencing with the initial http://library.thinkquest.org/22584/emh1200.htm

¥±. The Greek Mathematics : Demonstrative Geometry ¢º Characteristic of Greek Mathematics ¢º Pythagorean Mathematics ¢º The Three Famous Problems ¢º Greek Mathematics After Euclid ¡ßCharacteristic of Greek Mathematics In the 600 B.C. Mathematics was focused as a study and a science in the ancient Greek as a matter of course in China, India and Babylonia and to learn Geometry in Egypt. Thales, Pythagoras and Plato in Greek studied in Egypt and joined with Egypt culture Greek produced achivements at mathematics formed a term of now civilization accepting the Egypt culture. That is "Elements" of Euclid, "The Theory of conic sections " of Apollonius, "Arithmetica" of Diophantus and many reserch achivements of Archimedes. Many scholar represented as Aristotle. Plato focused only philosophy and mathematics. The story, Plato wrote "NO one knows Geometry, No admission" at the enterance to a hall, is famous. Euclid is known affected by Aristotle and plato. His "Elements" is the first arranged and systematized book logically and had been used as a textbook toward the end of the 1800's in Europe.

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History of Geometry Contents Early Geometry Greek Mathematics Later Developments Analytic Geometry Geometry Main Page Greek Mathematics pre-Euclidean period The Greeks not only made significant advancements in geometry, but also changed the way mathematicians think. They preferred abstract concepts. Thales introduced the use of logical proof on deductive reasoning, whilst Euclid used his own ideas of axioms or postulates, assumptions accepted without justification. Other famous Greek mathematicians include Archimedes and Apollonius. Thales Miletus, who learnt geometry from the Egyptians, discovered many geometric properties. They include, that the angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle, the diameter of a circle is a bisector of the circle, base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal, vertically opposite angles are equal, as well as properties of similar and congruent triangles. It is possible, but not established, that he is Pythagoras' teacher. Pythagoras, who has the famous theorem named after him, was another early Greek mathematician. He founded a school, with aims political, philisophical and religious, almost like a cult. Pupils studied arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. Musical octaves and notes were established by Pythagoras. The theory of numbers, as well as the construction of Pythagorean triples, were explored.

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A ncient Greek Mathematics evolved from a much older civilization, the Egyptian culture. Pythagoras Ancient Greek mathematicians studied the relationships they found among measurements of figures. This branch of mathematics became known as geometry Measurement The basic unit of measurement in ancient Greece was a finger. A finger was roughly equal to three-quarters of an inch (about the width of a man's fingernail). INTEGRATION OF MATH AND LANGUAGE ARTS STATE GOAL 8:CAS A. List as many was as you can that people use geometry in everyday life. Measure Your desks and other objects in hands and feet. Measure various classroom objects using your own fingers as units of measure. Compare and discuss why measurements might be different. Determine how many fingers are in a foot, yard, mile etc Look up the definitions of the following geometric terms: point, plane, line, angle, cylinder, cube, and sphere. ART MATH SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES LIBRARY CONTACT US ... ENTRANCE

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