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Around 300 B.C.E., the Greek mathematician and logician Euclid proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Euclid began by assuming that there is a finite number of primes.
Math historian Peter S. Rudman suggests that Greek mathematicians were likely the first to understand the concept of prime numbers, around 500 B.C.E. Around 300 B.C.E., the Greek mathematician and ...
The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...
The Greek mathematician Archimedes was the first person known to have shown that the expansion of pi starts with 3.14. He accomplished this by approximating the circumference of a circle by the ...
It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and infinite number whose first three digits are 3.14. On this Pi Day, Daniel Sage, professor and chair of the Department of ...
The “DE” here abbreviates Diophantine equation, named after the Greek mathematician Diophantine, who lived in the third century C.E. The key challenge, then, ...
In “The Language of Mathematics,” Raúl Rojas gives us a survey, from the Greek cross (for the arithmetic operation of addition) to the earliest use of the concept of zero.
Thanks to Nicomachus, an ancient Greek follower of Pythagoras who lived between around 60 CE and 120 CE, we know that numbers that can be written like this – the squares of triangular numbers ...