Euclid Euclid of Alexandria is thought to have lived from about 325 BC until 265 BC in Alexandria, Egypt. There is very little known about his life. It was thought ...

ARCHIMEDES A Man 2000 Years Ahead of His Time Archimedes was born in 287 B.C., in the city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily. His father is thought to have been an astronomer. Through his father, Archimedes developed a life long interest in the study of the heavens. In his youth, Archimed...

Mathematics, argues H.E. Huntley in his book, The Divine Proportion (1970) can be beautiful. This is not a radical notion in and of itself. After all is not the discipline of mathematics all about imposing the neatness, simplicity, and proportion of numbers onto seemingly random sequences? All of th...

Mathematics The word "mathematics" comes from the Greek word, máthema which means "science, knowledge, or learning." Mathematics is a broad-ranging field of study in which the properties and interactions of idealized objects are examined. Whereas mathematics began merely as a ...

The first thing I would like to say before I start this paper on Thales is that when dealing with ancient Greek mathemetitions, any "facts" you may uncover are really just educated guesses. The reason for this is, because all records back then were kept on cuneiform tablets. These tablets just ...