Examines ancient numeral systems, Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics, Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and ...

The Greek mathematician, Euclid, limited the constructions in his Elements of Geometry to those that could be done with an unmarked straight edge and rudimentary compass. Ancient Roman dividers ...

Euclid was one of the first great Greek mathematicians. In his classic "Elements", Euclid laid the framework for our formal understanding of geometry. While earlier Greek philosophers, like the ...