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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th–2nd century BCE, its latest stage being from the 1st century CE. This book is one of the earliest surviving mathematical texts from China, the others being the Suan shu ...
Cross-multiplication. In mathematics, specifically in elementary arithmetic and elementary algebra, given an equation between two fractions or rational expressions, one can cross-multiply to simplify the equation or determine the value of a variable. The method is also occasionally known as the "cross your heart" method because lines resembling ...
12:14 →. Christ healing the man with a withered hand, Byzantine mosaic. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 12:13 is the thirteenth verse in the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers that are part of the Fibonacci sequence are known as Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn . Many writers begin the sequence with 0 and 1, although some authors start it from 1 and 1 [1][2] and some (as did Fibonacci) from 1 ...
The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus 's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. [1] After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the ...
A balance puzzle or weighing puzzle is a logic puzzle about balancing items—often coins—to determine which holds a different value, by using balance scales a limited number of times. These differ from puzzles that assign weights to items, in that only the relative mass of these items is relevant. For example, in detecting a dissimilar coin ...
Matthew 9:3. ← 9:2. 9:4 →. "Christ and the Pharisees" by Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641); early 17th century. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 9:3 is a verse in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Abraham and Lot's conflict (Hebrew: מריבת רועי אברהם ורועי לוט, Merivat Roey Avraham Ve'Roey Lot) is an event in the Book of Genesis, in the weekly Torah portion, Lech-Lecha, that depicts the separation of Abraham and Lot, as a result of a fight among their shepherds. The dispute ends in a peaceful way, in which Abraham ...