Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilization. The three Roman authors ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtino (1402–1482) was a well-known scholar in the Judeo-Byzantine world—philosopher, exegete, mathematician, and ...

THE subject-matter of this work has at different times been brought under the notice of the readers of NATURE, for it is very little more than a collected and corrected reproduction of papers which ...