History Of Mathematics Test 2

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Herodotus: time and significance

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5th Century BC

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Proclus: time and significance

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5th Century AD, commentary on Book I of

Euclid's Elements. Catalog of Geometers

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Aristotle: time and significance

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4th Century BC

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Rhind Papyrus date bought:

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Henry Rhind in 1858 at Nile resort Luxor

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Rhing Papyrus: Date written and significance

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1650 BC written by scribe Ahmose but says it came from two centuries earlier. About 85 problems on it.

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Moscow Papyrus: Date bought

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Bought in Egypt in 1893, now in Moscow.

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Moscow Papyrus: Date written and significance

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Unknown scribe around 1890 BC, about 25

problems on it.

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Name of script written on Papyrus

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Hieratic (of the priests), hieroglyphics were mainly used on tombs and monuments.

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Greek Classical Period: Time and Places

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600-300 BC Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Athens

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Greek Classical Period: People

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Thales, Pythagoras, Zeno, Plato

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Alexandrian or Hellenistic: Time and Places

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(300 BC - 600 AD) Alexandria

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Alexandrian or Hellenistic: People

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Euclid, Archimedes, Hypatia

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Thales: time and places

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625-550 BC From Miletus (Asia Minor) may have been teacher of Pythagoras said to have traveled to Egypt and Mesopotamia

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Thales: importance

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First Greek mathematician and philosopher, first to organize geometry into a deductive

science. "All is water" "Not 'what do we know' but 'how do we know it' "

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Pythagoras: time and places

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580-500 BC from the island of Samos, near
Miletus. Late moved to Croton in Italy with his followers.

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Pythagoras & Pythagoreans: importance &

beliefs

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Believed in transmigration of souls, vegetarian, weird prohibitions (do not eat beans),

Pythagoras is said to have performed miracles, promoted and coined words for philosophy and mathematics, Pythagorean Quadrivium, "all is number"

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Pythagorean Quadrivium

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1. Arithmetic (numbers at rest) Number theory

2. Geometry (magnitudes at rest)
3. Music (numbers in motion)

4. Astronomy (magnitudes in motion)

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Description de l’Egypte

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Huge work of research done by French scholars during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798

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Rosetta Stone

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Discovered by Napoleon's officers in 1799, three tablets written in ancient Greek, Demotic and

Hieroglyphics. Allowed for translation!

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Jean Francois Champollion

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1790–1832 AD Famous Egyptologist who helped solve the Rosetta Stone by realizing the circled texts were names of Ptolemy .

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Five Regular Solids

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Cube, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron,

Icosahedron

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Golden Section

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AH/HB = HB/AB (smaller/larger = larger/whole)