In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...
Candid cornerBy Raoof Hasan“And there assume some other horrible form,/ Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,/ And draw you into madness? Think of it” – ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof
For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...
Andrew Wiles devoted much of his career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, a challenge that perplexed the best minds in mathematics for 300 years. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he ...
Ask someone to name the most important physicist of the 20 th century, and they will almost certainly say Albert Einstein. Ask the same question about the field of mathematics, however, and you will ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information This monthly journal, begun in 1950, is devoted entirely to research in pure and applied mathematics, principally to the ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The oldest mathematics journal in the Western Hemisphere in continuous publication, the American Journal of Mathematics ranks as ...
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