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Hellenistic and early Roman period
Late antiquity
Reception and legacy
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Overview
- Ancient Greece
- Classical Classical antiquity
- Late antiquity
- Mediterranean
- Anatolia
- Italy
- North Africa
- Greek culture
- Greek language Ancient Greek
- Deductive reasoning
- Proofs Mathematical proof
- Mathematical theorems Theorem
- Euclid's Elements
- Hellenistic period
- Archimedes
- Apollonius Apollonius of Perga
- Hipparchus
- Imperial Roman
- Ptolemy
- Nicomachus
- Number theory
- Pappus of Alexandria
- Diophantus
- Arithmetica
- Theon of Alexandria
- Hypatia
- Eutocius of Ascalon
- Renaissance
- Early modern
- Carl Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss
Etymology
Origins
- Minoan
- Mycenaean Mycenaean Greece
- Bronze Age
- Linear B
- Babylonian Babylonian mathematics
- Egyptian mathematics Ancient Egyptian mathematics
- Late Bronze Age collapse
- Phoenician alphabet
- Papyrus
- Hippocrates of Chios
- Eudemus of Rhodes
- Thales of Miletus
- Seven Sages of Greece
- Pythagoras of Samos Pythagoras
- Scribal culture Scribe
- Oral literature
- Thales' Theorem Thales's theorem
- Pythagorean theorem
- Platonic solids
- Lunes Lune of Hippocrates
- Square the circle
- Oenopides of Chios
- Philolaus of Croton
- Socrates
- Pythagoreanism
- Antiphon Antiphon (orator)
- Hippias
- A method Quadratrix of Hippias
- Neusis construction
- Protagoras
Hellenistic and early Roman period
- Roman periods Roman Empire
- Alexander the Great
- Eastern Mediterranean
- Egypt Ancient Egypt
- Mesopotamia
- Iranian plateau
- Central Asia
- India
- Koine Greek
- Lingua franca
- Egyptian Egyptian mathematics
- Mouseion
- Alexandria
- Ptolemaic Egypt
- Euclid
- Method of exhaustion
- Measurement of a Circle
- On the Sphere and Cylinder
- Law of the lever
- Method of Mechanical Theorems
- The Sand-Reckoner
- Conics On Conic Sections
- Conic sections Conic section
- Conon of Samos
- Trigonometry
- Almagest
- Prime numbers Prime number
- Divisibility Divisibility rule
- Euclidean algorithm
- Greatest common divisor
Late antiquity
- Algebraic Algebra
- Equations
- Indeterminate equations Indeterminate equation
- Pandrosion
- Arbelos
- Zenodotus
- Serenus of Antinoöpolis
- Heliodorus of Larissa
- Porphyry of Tyre
- Plotinus
- Iamblichus
- Proclus
- Domninus of Larissa
- Marinus of Neapolis
- Ammonius Hermiae
- John Philoponus
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Anthemius of Tralles
- Archimedes' heat ray
- Isidore of Miletus
- Hagia Sophia
- Boethius
Reception and legacy
- Autolycus of Pitane
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Biton of Pergamon
- Theodosius of Bithynia
- Athenaeus Mechanicus
- Apollodorus of Damascus
- Cleomedes
- Cleonides
- Gaudentius Gaudentius (music theorist)
- Porphyry Porphyry (philosopher)
- Aristides Quintilian
- Alypius Alypius of Alexandria
- Eutocius
- Parapegma Almanac
- Ostraca Elephantine papyri and ostraca
- Herculaneum
- Demetrius Lacon
- Arabic Graeco-Arabic translation movement
- Syriac Syriac language
- Arabic
- Uncial Uncial script
- Minuscule Greek minuscule
- Photios I
- Leo the Mathematician
- Arethas of Caesarea
- Archimedes Palimpsest
- Scholia
- George Pachymeres
- Maximus Planudes
- Alhazen
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Important terminology
greek mathematics ancient works mathematical elements archimedes mathematicians period book later century apollonius hellenistic geometry work also wrote arabic commentary
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Theon of Alexandria | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| his daughter Hypatia | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| and Eutocius of Ascalon wrote commentaries on the authors making up the ancient Greek mathematical corpus.The works of ancient Greek mathematicians were copied in the Byzantine period | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| translated into Arabic | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| Latin | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| where they exerted influence on mathematics in the Islamic world | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| in Medieval Europe | instance of | Later authors | 0.80 | text |
| Carl Gauss | instance of | Some problems in Ancient Greek mathematics were solved only in the modern era by mathematicians | 0.80 | text |
| and attempts to prove or disprove Euclid's parallel line postulate spurred the development of non-Euclidean geometry | instance of | Some problems in Ancient Greek mathematics were solved only in the modern era by mathematicians | 0.80 | text |
| Euclid | instance of | Much of the work represented by authors | 0.80 | text |
| Archimedes | instance of | Much of the work represented by authors | 0.80 | text |
| Apollonius | instance of | Much of the work represented by authors | 0.80 | text |
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