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The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry. We know from other references that Euclid's was not the first elementary geometry textbook, but it was so much superior that the others fell into disuse and were lost.
1135 – Sharafeddin Tusi followed al-Khayyam's application of algebra to geometry, and wrote a treatise on cubic equations which "represents an essential contribution to another algebra which aimed to study curves by means of equations, thus inaugurating the beginning of algebraic geometry." [2]
The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.
Yuri Manin (1937–2023) – algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry; Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010) – algebraic geometry; Ernest Vinberg (1937–2020) J. H. Conway (1937–2020) – sphere packing, recreational geometry; Robin Hartshorne (1938–) – geometry, algebraic geometry; Phillip Griffiths (1938–) – algebraic geometry ...
The content of the Éléments is divided into books—major topics of discussion, volumes—individual, physical books, and chapters, together with certain summaries of results, historical notes, and other details. The volumes of the Éléments have had a complex publication history. Material has been revised for new editions, published ...
This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are beginning to be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic ...
A quick glance into the world of modern triangle geometry as it existed during the peak of interest in triangle geometry subsequent to the publication of Lemoine's paper is presented below. This presentation is largely based on the topics discussed in William Gallatly's book [ 13 ] published in 1910 and Roger A Johnsons' book [ 14 ] first ...
Euclid and His Modern Rivals is a mathematical book published in 1879 by the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known under his literary pseudonym "Lewis Carroll". It considers the pedagogic merit of thirteen contemporary geometry textbooks , demonstrating how each in turn is either inferior to or functionally ...