Archimedes
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Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his s
Archimedes Thoughtful (1620)
Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1805) by Benjamin West
Front page of Archimedes' Opera, in Greek and Latin, edited by David Rivault (1615)
Ostomachion is a dissection puzzle found in the Archimedes Palimpsest
Geometry
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Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branch
A European and an Arab practicing geometry in the 15th century
Woman teaching geometry. Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of Euclid's Elements, c. 1310.
Visual checking of the Pythagorean theorem for the (3, 4, 5) triangle as in the Zhoubi Suanjing 500–200 BC. The Pythagorean theorem is a consequence of the Euclidean metric.
Quintic Calabi–Yau threefold