Missing ancient manuscripts written by famous mathematician discovered by scientists
Lost manuscripts written by the famous Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga were discovered in the Netherlands. The ...
No exaggeration: Scientists rediscover lost works of Apollonius in a 17th-century manuscript
The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob ...
Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
Scientists spell out Islamic scientific traditions in a new a volume dedicated to unlocking the secrets of oriental ...
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Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer ... That assessment hardly endeared Newton to other historians of ancient science. One refutal by Owen Gingrich ruefully ...
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What Is Pi, and Why Is It So Important?
Credit: Public domain Ancient Greek mathematicians, including Pythagoras and his followers, knew the constant relationship between radius and circumference. Pi shows up in the sacred geometry of ...
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Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript ...