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Time to move away from 'a pill for every ill'.(COMMENTARY)(Viewpoint essay): An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News by Gurorit S. Lamba, 2010-08-01 Archimedes: The Father of Mathematics (The Library of Greek Philosophers) by Heather Hasan, 2006-02-03 Maths and the Greeks (Maths & History) by John Davies, 2002-06-28 The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras And Other Pythagorean Fragments by Florence M. Firth, 2010-10-06 Hoi mathematikoi tes archaias Helladas: Viographika stoicheia kai ergaseis ton mathematikon tes archaias Helladas apo to 900 P. Ch. heos to 550 M. Ch (Greek Edition) by Vangeles Spandagos, Archimedes (Pioneers of Science) by Peter Lafferty, 1991-08 Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library) by Jeanne Bendick, 1995-10 THALES OF MILETUS(sixth century BCE): An entry from Gale's <i>Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> by Stephen White, 2006 The Father of Geometry: Euclid and His 3-D World (Great Minds of Ancient Science and Math) by Paul Hightower, 2010-09 Measuring the Earth: Eratosthenes and His Celestial Geometry (Great Minds of Ancient Science and Math) by Mary Gow, 2009-06 PYTHAGORAS: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by Bruno Centrone, 2005 The Three Unsolved Problems of Ancient Greece: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Todd Timmons, 2001 Archimedes in the Middle Ages/2 Parts (University of Wisconsin Publications in Medieval Science) by Archimedes, 1980-08 Archimedes : What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka? (Classroom Resource Material) (Classroom Resource Materials) by Sherman Stein, 1999-06-15

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21. Howstuffworks "Ancient Greek Mathematicians"
    The Ancient Greek Mathematicians section provides information on notable Greek figures in the field of mathematics. Learn about ancient Greek  
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    Extractions: HSW.sm.loadPageInfo(442630); OAS_AD('TopBanner'); HowStuffWorks The Ancient Greek Mathematicians section traces the histories of notable Greek figures in the burgeoning field of mathematics. These articles take you to the root of mathematical ideas. Hero, or Heron, of Alexandria, a Greek engineer and mathematician of the first, second, or third century A.D. Articles 1-7 of 7 Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.), an Athenian general and statesman. His unprincipled leadership helped cause the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War (43-404 B.C.). Archimedes, (287-212 B.C.), a Greek mathematician and physicist. He was the greatest mathematician of ancient times and ranks as one of the great scientists of all times. Aristarchus of Samos, (310-250 B.C.), a Greek astronomer, believed to have worked in Alexandria, Egypt. Eratosthenes (27-196 B.C.), a Greek geographer and astronomer. He was the first to determine the circumference of the earth.

22. Readings In Greek Mathematics
    How do we know about Greek mathematics? How do we know about Greek mathematicians? The timeline of Greek mathematicians Translations of Euclid s Elements.  
    http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/Greek/readings4.htm
    
    Extractions: The Origins of Mathematics; the schools Thales , by Dmitri Panchenko Thales, his Philosophy and Mathmatics Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans Anaxagorus and the Heroic Age ... Greek Enumeration and Arithmetic Eudoxus Euclid Archimedes Apollonius and other geometers Ancient Algebra Diophantus ... Pappus How do we know about Greek mathematics? How do we know about Greek mathematicians? The timeline of Greek mathematicians Translations of Euclid's Elements. ... Epicycle animation. Some files are long and make take a few minutes to download. To read and print them you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Each reading, in Acrobat (pdf) format, is a short paper on the aspect in question. Upon completing a reading, try to answer the questions that pertain to it.

23. What Field Did Greek Mathematicians Make Especially Groundbreaking Advances In?
    What field did Greek mathematicians make especially groundbreaking advances in? ChaCha has the answer Greek mathematicians were also very interested in pr  
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24. Diocles (mathematician) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    A brief article on a Greek mathematician and geometer.  
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    Extractions: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Diocles (Διοκλῆς in Ancient Greek , ca. 240 BC - ca. 180 BC) was a Greek mathematician and geometer Although little is known about the life of Diocles, it is known that he was a contemporary of Apollonius and that he flourished sometime around the end of the third century and the beginning of the second century BC Diocles is thought to be the first person to prove the focal property of the parabola . His name is associated with the geometric curve called the Cissoid of Diocles , which was used by Diocles to solve the problem of doubling the cube . The curve was alluded to by Proclus in his commentary on Euclid and attributed to Diocles by Geminus as early as the beginning of the first century. Fragments of a work by Diocles entitled On burning mirrors were preserved by Eutocius in his commentary of Archimedes On the Sphere and the Cylinder . Historically, On burning mirrors had a large influence on Arabic mathematicians, particularly on al-Haytham , the 11th-century polymath of Cairo whom Europeans knew as "Alhazen". The treatise contains sixteen propositions that are proved by

25. Greek Mathematics Index
    Full List of Greek Mathematicians in our archive; Anaxagoras Anthemius Antiphon Apollonius Archimedes Archytas Aristaeus Aristarchus Aristotle Autolycus of Pitane  
    http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Indexes/Greeks.html

26. Greek Mathematicians Ppt Download
    The story of two Greek mathematicians of modern times Born in Berlin (to Greek parents his father was a Turkish diplomat at the time Greeks could attain high office)  
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    Extractions: pdf to txt Enter book title Looking for : Greek mathematicians Chapter Download It comes from the text by Greek mathematician Euclid, the Elements, written around 300 B.C. Hilbert's famous 23 Paris problems challenged (and still today challenge) mathematicians to solve fundamental questions. TAG postulates geometry euclidean geometry proof ... Download The story of two Greek mathematicians of "modern times" Born in Berlin (to Greek parents: his father was a Turkish diplomat at the time Greeks could attain high office) mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11208/Chapter5 -1.ppt Download It is interesting to note that although Greek and Roman cultures existed simultaneously, no Roman mathematicians of note are mentioned in historical documents. This is As with most of ancient Greek mathematicians , little is known about him personally, what little we know is that he lived in Chapter 5 Presentation Download The development of Christianity accelerated the demise of Greek learning He was a leading Greek mathematician of his time but the original mathematics he created was small in stature and quantity TAG history dcs bhaskara al-khowârizmî ... Factorization and Primality Pure mathematics is, in its way ...

27. Heron Of Alexandria (ca. 75 AD) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Bio
    Greek mathematician who was mainly interested in practical studies in mechanics and engineering, best known for Heron s Formula  
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    Extractions: Greek mathematician who was mainly interested in practical studies in mechanics and engineering. He dealt with a number of such problems in his work Dioptra. He is best known today for Proposition 1.8 of his Metrica, which is now known as Heron's formula The manuscript had been lost for centuries until a fragment was discovered in 1894, followed by a complete copy in 1896.

28. Index Of Greek Mathematicians
    JOC/EFR January 2000 The URL of this page is School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland http//wwwhistory.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Indexes/Greek  
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29. Greek Mathematicians Names | TutorVista
    Geometry is the branch of mathematics that studies figures constructed with the use of the straightedge and the compass. Aristotle involved in the theoretical geometry to study  
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30. Archytas (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
    Life and work of fourth century BC Greek mathematician, political leader and philosopher; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Carl Huffman.  
    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/archytas/
    
    Extractions: Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free First published Thu Jun 26, 2003; substantive revision Wed Jul 25, 2007 Archytas of Tarentum was a Greek mathematician, political leader and philosopher, active in the first half of the fourth century BC (i.e., during Plato's lifetime). He was the last prominent figure in the early Pythagorean tradition and the dominant political figure in Tarentum, being elected general seven consecutive times. He sent a ship to rescue Plato from the clutches of the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II, in 361, but his personal and philosophical connections to Plato are complex, and there are many signs of disagreement between the two philosophers. A great number of works were forged in Archytas' name starting in the first century BC, and only four fragments of his genuine work survive, although these are supplemented by a number of important testimonia. Archytas was the first to solve one of the most celebrated mathematical problems in antiquity, the duplication of the cube. We also have his proof showing that ratios of the form ( n n , which are important in music theory, cannot be divided by a mean proportional. He was the most sophisticated of the Pythagorean harmonic theorists and provided mathematical accounts of musical scales used by the practicing musicians of his day. He was the first to identify the group of four canonical sciences (logistic [arithmetic], geometry, astronomy and music), which would become known as the

31. Aristotle And Mathematics > Aristotle And Greek Mathematics (Stanford Encycloped
    Greek mathematicians wisely avoided nonuniform magnitudes which could not be reduced to uniform magnitudes. The reason for this has partly to do with the difficulty of  
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    Extractions: Cite this entry Search the SEP Advanced Search Tools ... Stanford University This supplement provides some general indications of Aristotle's awareness and participation in mathematical activities of his time. Here are twenty-five of his favorite propositions (the list is not exhaustive). Where a proposition occurs in Euclid's Elements , the number is given, * indicates that we can reconstruct from what Aristotle says a proof different from that found in Euclid). Where the attribution is in doubt, I cite the scholar who endorses it. In many cases, the theorem is inferred from the context. In a given circle equal chords form equal angles with the circumference of the circle ( Prior Analytics i.24; not at all Euclidean in conception) The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal ( Prior Analytics i.24; Eucl. i.5*). The angles about a point are two right angles ( Metaphysics ix 9; Eucl. follows from i def. 10). If two straight-lines are parallel and a straight-line intersects them, the interior angle is equal to the exterior angle (

32. Ancient Mathematicians
    Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematicians known for such things as measuring the circumference of the earth.  
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    Extractions: zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Ancient / Classical History Search People and Places People Ancient builders and others needed good techniques for measurement. Ancient mathematics is one of the many fields in which the ancient philosophers and other thinkers excelled. Claudius Ptolemy (4) Euclid (2) Pythagoras @ The Greeks developed philosophy as a way of understanding the natural world without resorting to myth or magic. Early Greek philosophers were also scientists. Many of their discoveries and inventions are still used today. zSB(3,3) Basic information on Archimedes, the Greek mathematician of Syracuse. Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematicians known for such things as measuring the circumference of the earth. Eudoxus was an important mathematician who lived around the time of Plato and Aristotle. Hippocrates of Chios, who lived about the same time as the medical Hippocrates, wrote the first known work on geometry.

33. Pythagoras - History For Kids!
    A lot of Euclid, but also describes who the other major Greek mathematicians  
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    Extractions: Pythagoras for Kids - the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem Pythagoras Pythagoras lived in the 500's BC , and was one of the first Greek mathematical thinkers. He spent most of his life in the Greek colonies in Sicily and southern Italy. He had a group of followers (like the disciples of Jesus ) who followed him around and taught other people what he had taught them. The Pythagoreans were known for their pure lives (they didn't eat beans , for example, because they thought beans were not pure enough). They wore their hair long, and wore only simple clothing , and went barefoot. Both men and women were Pythagoreans. Pythagoreans were interested in philosophy , but especially in music and mathematics , two ways of making order out of chaos. Music is noise that makes sense, and mathematics is rules for how the world works. Pythagoras himself is best known for proving that the Pythagorean Theorem was true. The Sumerians , two thousand years earlier, already knew that it was generally true, and they used it in their measurements, but Pythagoras is said to have proved that it would always be true. We don't really know whether it was Pythagoras that proved it, because there's no evidence for it until the time of Euclid , but that's the tradition. Some people think that the proof must have been written around the time of Euclid, instead.

34. Greek Mathematics Index
    Jump to Mathematicians/Astronomers Apollonius Archimedes Aristarchus Aristotle Autolycus of Pitane Callippus Cleomedes Conon, Democritus Eratosthenes  
    http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Indexes/Greeks.html

35. Math Lair - Greek Mathematicians
    May 21, 2001 Greek Mathematicians and Philosophers. Some of these dates are necessarily approximate. Thales 634548; Pythagoras 580-500  
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36. Time Line: 800BC-700AD
    Time Line of the Greek period (including some Indian mathematicians) 800 BC  
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37. Greek Mathematics
    GREEK MATHEMATICIANS. The ancient Greeks were very interested in scientific thought. They were not satisfied with just knowing the facts; they wanted to know the why and how.  
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    Extractions: The ancient Greeks were very interested in scientific thought. They were not satisfied with just knowing the facts; they wanted to know the why and how. It should be no surprise that the Greeks were extremely successful in the area of mathematics. The mathematics we use today, and its content, are for the most part Greek. The Greeks laid down the first principles, and invented methods for solving problems. Though most people don't realize it, mathematics is a Greek science - regardless of what modern day analysis might bring. When people look back on Greek genius, they may naturally call to mind masterpieces in Greek literature and art . But the Greeks, with their insatiable desire to know the true meaning of everything and give a rational explanation of it, were irresistibly drawn to the sciences, exact reasoning in general, and logic. There are many famous Greek names in mathematics. One of which is Aristotle , who said he could conceive of nothing more beautiful than the objects of mathematics. Plato , delighted in geometry and the wonders of numbers, inscribed, "let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors" over the entrance to his academy.

38. Perseus Digital Library
    Welcome to Perseus 4.0, also known as the Perseus Hopper. Read more on the Perseus version history. New to Perseus? Click here for a short tutorial.  
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39. Howstuffworks "Ancient Greek Mathematicians Videos"
    The Ancient Greek Mathematicians videos provide information on notable Greek  
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    Extractions: HSW.sm.loadPageInfo(455239); HowStuffWorks Videos mathematicians: video of the day What the Ancients Knew: The Archimedes Screw Recommend On The Science Channel's "What the Ancient's Knew," learn about the Archimedes screw, an invention used by the Ancient Egyptians to draw water from the Nile River to irrigate their fields. Tags: archimedes irrigation ancient greeks invention ... what the ancients knew Having trouble watching this video? top playlists Berlin Wall Videos

40. Index Of Ancient Greek Philosophers-Scientists
    Greek mathematician and engineer which is included among the top ranking  
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    Extractions: This period marking advances in astronomy, mathematics and medicine. Hellinistic refers to the Greeks and others who lived after Alexander the Great's conquests, during which there existed a mixture of civilizations. Important schools of this period include Epicurianism, Stoiciscm , and Skeptisicm Epicurus of Samos (341-270 B.C.). Founder of the philosophical school of Epicurianism which, similar to the Atomists, believed that atoms are fundamental parts of the real world. Believed that fate was governed by laws of nature and not some mysterious gods. Straton (Lambsacus, 340-290 B.C.). Greek physicist. Conducted experiments leading him to discover that bodies accelerate when they fall. However, erroneously, he also believes that heavier bodies fall faster. Also studied the lever, but does not find it's law. His work emphasizes the use of experimentation for scientific research. Lived in Alexandria, then moved to Athens to head the Aristitle's Lyceum after Theophrastos. Zenon of Citius (4th century B.C.).

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