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Rouse Ball, A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge; Leonard Roth (1971) "Old Cambridge Days", American Mathematical Monthly 78:223–236. The Tripos was an important institution in nineteenth century England and many notable figures were involved with it. It has attracted broad attention from scholars. See for example:
The same set of points can often be constructed using a smaller set of tools. For example, using a compass, straightedge, and a piece of paper on which we have the parabola y=x 2 together with the points (0,0) and (1,0), one can construct any complex number that has a solid construction. Likewise, a tool that can draw any ellipse with already ...
If two straight lines in a plane are crossed by another straight line (called the transversal), and the interior angles between the two lines and the transversal lying on one side of the transversal add up to less than two right angles, then on that side of the transversal, the two lines extended will intersect (also called the parallel postulate).
A transversal produces 8 angles, as shown in the graph at the above left: 4 with each of the two lines, namely α, β, γ and δ and then α 1, β 1, γ 1 and δ 1; and; 4 of which are interior (between the two lines), namely α, β, γ 1 and δ 1 and 4 of which are exterior, namely α 1, β 1, γ and δ.
This is a list of mathematics history topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of mathematicians, timeline of mathematics, history of mathematics, list of publications in mathematics. 1729 (anecdote) Adequality; Archimedes Palimpsest; Archimedes' use of infinitesimals; Arithmetization of analysis; Brachistochrone curve; Chinese mathematics ...
An example is the Fermat curve u n + v n = w n, which has an affine form x n + y n = 1. A similar process of homogenization may be defined for curves in higher dimensional spaces. Except for lines, the simplest examples of algebraic curves are the conics, which are nonsingular curves of degree two and genus zero.
This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are beginning to be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic ...
The American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) is a selective and prestigious 15-question 3-hour test given since 1983 to those who rank in the top 5% on the AMC 12 high school mathematics examination (formerly known as the AHSME), and starting in 2010, those who rank in the top 2.5% on the AMC 10. Two different versions of the test ...