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  2. History of calculus - Wikipedia

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    The ancient period introduced some of the ideas that led to integral calculus, but does not seem to have developed these ideas in a rigorous and systematic way. . Calculations of volumes and areas, one goal of integral calculus, can be found in the Egyptian Moscow papyrus (c. 1820 BC), but the formulas are only given for concrete numbers, some are only approximately true, and they are not ...

  3. List of Greek inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The structure is today submerged by the Keban Reservoir. [67] Political science: As a social political science, contemporary political science started to take shape in the latter half of the 19th century. At that time it began to separate itself from political philosophy, which traces its roots back to the works of Aristotle and Plato.

  4. Greek mathematics - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem. 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.

  5. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    Creating the one point or two points in the intersection of two circles (if they intersect). For example, starting with just two distinct points, we can create a line or either of two circles (in turn, using each point as centre and passing through the other point). If we draw both circles, two new points are created at their intersections.

  6. Peplos Kore - Wikipedia

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    Peplos Kore. The Peplos Kore is an ancient sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens.It is considered one of the best-known examples of Archaic Greek art. Kore is a type of archaic Greek statue that portrays a young woman with a stiff posture looking straight forward.

  7. Korai of the Acropolis of Athens - Wikipedia

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    Peplos Kore, c. 530 BC. Among the most ancient korai found on the Athenian acropolis, are Acropolis 619 and Acropolis 677 which date from the first half of the 6th century and derive from Samos and Naxos respectively, while the Kore of Lyons, dating to the middle of the century, represents the first example of Ionian influence on Attic sculpture, as well as the first use of typical Ionian ...

  8. 22 Ways Men Can Make Their Orgasms Better - AOL

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    That’s why Ooha Susmita, M.D., a sexual wellness expert with Allo Healthcare, recommends continually shaking things up in your sex life—whether that means trying role play, dirty talk, or BDSM ...

  9. Diophantus - Wikipedia

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    Diophantus of Alexandria [1] (/ d aɪ oʊ ˈ f æ n t ə s /; [2] born c. AD 200 – c. 214; died c. AD 284 – c. 298) was a Greek mathematician, who was the author of two main works: On Polygonal Numbers, which survives incomplete, and the Arithmetica in thirteen books, most of it extant, made up of arithmetical problems that are solved through algebraic equations. [3]