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Greek mathematics. Greek mathematics refers to mathematics texts and ideas stemming from the Archaic through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, around the shores of the Mediterranean. [1] [2] Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire region, from Anatolia to Italy and North ...
Archimedes of Syracuse[ a] ( / ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz / AR-kim-EE-deez; [ 2] c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. [ 3] Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.
Themistocles M. Rassias (born 1951) - Professor at the National Technical University of Athens. [25] Raphaël Salem (1898–1963) - Greek mathematician after whom are named the Salem numbers and whose widow founded the Salem Prize. Cyparissos Stephanos (1857–1917) - Notable contributor of desmic systems. [26]
Euclid (/ ˈ j uː k l ɪ d /; Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. [2] Considered the "father of geometry", [3] he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely dominated the field until the early 19th century.
Apollonius of Perga ( c. 240 – c. 190 BC) is known for his work on conic sections and his study of geometry in 3-dimensional space. He is considered one of the greatest ancient Greek mathematicians. Hipparchus ( c. 190 – c. 120 BC) is considered the founder of trigonometry [9] and also solved several problems of spherical trigonometry.
t. e. Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities.
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Pythagoras. Pythagoras of Samos [a] ( Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) [b] was an ancient Ionian 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, the West ...