Euclid

regular shapes, and the Archimedes screw. Only mentioning some, he got a lot more of inventions and discoveries that we still use now a days. Archimedes spent a considerable amount of time at Alexandria, where he may had studied with the successors of Euclid. Archimedes spent most of his life in Syracuse, but spend some time at Alexandria because every important document or discovery was in the library of Alexandria. Those documents and discoveries helped him to achieve a lot of things he…

acculturation from the Byzantine and Latin Christian cultures. Muslims acculturated into the Latin Christian world through conversion into Christianity. Eventually this led them to the loss of their language this was proven in the 1200’s from the document Euclid of Geometry which was translated from Arabic into Spanish. When Muslims accelerated into the Byzantine world they began to become inspired from their art work and their art began to become more abstract. In the 690’s if you look at the…

Many more scientists grew to have an affinity towards the golden ratio. One such scientist was the polymath Leonardo Da Vinci, who was known to integrate the divine ratio into his paintings. Other great associations were inherently linked to the Phi. An example of this occurred between 1571 and 1630 when Johannes Kepler discovered the elliptical nature of the planets around the sun. Quasicrystals discovered by Dan Shechtman were one of the most modern applications of Phi that are still being…

One of the famous mathematicians that I would like to share with you is Pythagoras. Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician, He lived around the 570 to 495 B.C.( you must us Before Christ before you can use B.C) Pythagoras was credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagorean cult. In this time Pythagoras often was called the first “true” mathematician. But, although his contribution was clearly important, he nevertheless remains a controversial figure. He left no mathematical writings…

characterization. In the novel, Sal's characterization contributes to the author's message of acceptance. Sal was very surprised that her dad actually took them to Euclid. “I did not think we would ever leave, and yet I did not want to leave. I didn't really expect to survive the trip”(Creech 6). Sal was surprised that her dad actually took them to Euclid. Sal finally realized that the trip wouldn't kill her and that it was fine to leave Bybanks. Sal was thankful her grandparents took her…

Ancient Greece can be traced back to the Stone Age hunters (6000-2900 B.C.); however, Greek culture was much more notable from 1100-146 B.C., and likely had a more profound impact on Western civilization than any other culture. From 1100-750 B.C., a period known as the Dark Ages, Ancient Greece was immersed with wars and invasions and, over time, was divided into small, city states. During the Archaic Period (750-500 B.C.), art, the beginnings of democracy, and the knowledge and understanding of…

As morning came I heard the birds chirping and my mom yelling from the kitchen “trey get up its time for school,”! As I’m dragging myself out of bed I get a call from my coach telling me “trey is you up for school? you better be we have one of our biggest games today and I need you to be up and ready cause I’m counting on you to be a leader for the rest of the team”. After the call I was really focused and ready to play, we were going to play our school rivals Cleveland heights which were one of…

The ancient Greeks have shaped the modern world and established the building blocks for Western Civilization. Due to the conquest of Alexander the Great and the later adoption of certain cultural attributes into Roman life, Classical Greek architecture and philosophy still permeates within the modern world. Even the three orders of ancient Greek column design (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian) can be seen on government buildings and private residences throughout the United States and the nations…

Plays started to get imperative in old Greece and two sorts of plays, which were composed and performed, were comedies and tragedies. A drama in antiquated Greece was typically a play that stamped or made fun of a certain point, individual, or assembly of individuals. One renowned comic drama essayist was Aristophanes. He composed the play The Birds and Lysistrata. A tragedy in aged Greece generally demise with an ethical or social issue, human enduring, and finished in a disaster. Three…

In a text published by the great Hilbert, called the Foundations of Geometry, in 1899. He proposed a special set, called Hilbert’s axioms, substituting for the traditional axioms of the Euclid. What it did was that it avoided the specified weaknesses that is stated in that of Euclid. Euclids work was world renown and used as textbooks everywhere. The axioms used are hard to comprehend due to the history of the publications. This approach in the use of axioms created a shift the signaled…