Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "History of geometry" ... This page was last edited on 6 January 2023, ...
1135 – Sharafeddin Tusi followed al-Khayyam's application of algebra to geometry, and wrote a treatise on cubic equations which "represents an essential contribution to another algebra which aimed to study curves by means of equations, thus inaugurating the beginning of algebraic geometry." [2]
In geometry, there was a clear need for a new set of axioms, which would be complete, and which in no way relied on pictures we draw or on our intuition of space. Such axioms, now known as Hilbert's axioms, were given by David Hilbert in 1894 in his dissertation Grundlagen der Geometrie (Foundations of Geometry).
Boethius provided a place for mathematics in the curriculum in the 6th century when he coined the term quadrivium to describe the study of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. He wrote De institutione arithmetica , a free translation from the Greek of Nicomachus 's Introduction to Arithmetic ; De institutione musica , also derived from ...
János Bolyai; artwork by Attila Zsigmond [1] Memorial plaque of János Bolyai in Olomouc, Czech Republic. János Bolyai (/ ˈ b ɔː l j ɔɪ /; [2] Hungarian: [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈboːjɒi]; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, [3] was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry.
Absolute geometry is a geometry based on an axiom system consisting of all the axioms giving Euclidean geometry except for the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. [69] The term was introduced by János Bolyai in 1832. [70] It is sometimes referred to as neutral geometry, [71] as it is neutral with respect to the parallel postulate.
1659 - Second edition of Van Schooten's Latin translation of Descartes' Geometry with appendices by Hudde and Heuraet, 1665 - Isaac Newton discovers the generalized binomial theorem and develops his version of infinitesimal calculus, 1667 - James Gregory publishes Vera circuli et hyperbolae quadratura, 1668 - Nicholas Mercator publishes ...
In 1907, he was appointed full professor of descriptive geometry at the Federal Polytechnic School. [4] As a professor of geometry, Grossmann organized summer courses for high school teachers. In 1910, he became one of the founders of the Swiss Mathematical Society. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1912 at Cambridge [5] and in 1920 at ...