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Branch of Mathematics about the properties of the shapes, their similarities and transformations in the space.
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Ancient drawing board in mathematics
According to Van Der Waerden's "Science Awakening", it was common for Ancient Greek mathematicians to use a board filled with sand to draw their figures, ie :
But the ancients made their geometric dr …
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Ancient Egyptian geometry
When reading on the topic of Ancient Egyptian geometry by Ancient Greek philosophers, there is a certain sense that this is quite a thriving discipline that seems comparable to the type of geometry done … or in Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras :
But it is said that he very much applied himself to geometry among the Egyptians. …
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What geometric results were first proven by assuming all real numbers are rational?
quite possible that the discovery of incommensurable length led to the general abandonment (possibly gradual) of the notion of those indivisible lines (or, in the case of Epicurians, the abandonment of geometry …
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