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    Greek mathematics refers to mathematics texts and ideas stemming from the Archaic through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the 5th century...
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    who coined the term "mathematics" from the ancient Greek μάθημα (mathema), meaning "subject of instruction". Greek mathematics greatly refined the methods...
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  • Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions...
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  • Perga" p. 145. Boyer 1991, "Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration" p. 162. Boyer 1991, "Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics" p. 180. Ore, Øystein (1988)...
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    A History of Greek Mathematics is a book by English historian of mathematics Thomas Heath about history of Greek mathematics. It was published in Oxford...
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    Abacus (redirect from Abacus (mathematics))
    Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.[citation needed] This Greek abacus...
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    Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built on Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius)...
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  • symbols. Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet...
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    Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world...
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    Squaring the circle is a problem in geometry first proposed in Greek mathematics. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the area of a given...
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