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Wilbur Knorr, the Glossary

Wilbur Richard Knorr (August 29, 1945 – March 18, 1997) was an American historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments of philosophy and classics at Stanford University.^[1]

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Angle trisection

Angle trisection is a classical problem of straightedge and compass construction of ancient Greek mathematics.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.

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In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, arithmetic average, or just the mean or average (when the context is clear) is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection.

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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (2 February 1903 – 12 January 1996) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics.

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Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States.

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Doubling the cube

Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient geometric problem.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker.

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Downtown Brooklyn

Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (after Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn.

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Euclid

Euclid (Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.

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Euclid's Elements

The Elements (Στοιχεῖα) is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid 300 BC.

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Eudoxus of Cnidus

Eudoxus of Cnidus (Εὔδοξος ὁ Κνίδιος, Eúdoxos ho Knídios) was an ancient Greek astronomer, mathematician, doctor, and lawmaker.

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G. E. L. Owen

Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen was a British classicist and philosopher who is best known as a scholar of ancient philosophy.

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Geometric mean

In mathematics, the geometric mean is a mean or average which indicates a central tendency of a finite set of real numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

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Golden ratio

In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

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Greek mathematics

Greek mathematics refers to mathematics texts and ideas stemming from the Archaic through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, around the shores of the Mediterranean.

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Harmonic mean

In mathematics, the harmonic mean is one of several kinds of average, and in particular, one of the Pythagorean means.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hippocrates of Chios

Hippocrates of Chios (Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος; c. 470 – c. 410 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer, and astronomer.

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Historia Mathematica

Historia Mathematica: International Journal of History of Mathematics is an academic journal on the history of mathematics published by Elsevier.

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History of mathematics

The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past.

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Hypatia

Hypatia (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Irrational number

In mathematics, the irrational numbers (in- + rational) are all the real numbers that are not rational numbers.

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Isis (journal)

Isis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Measurement of a Circle

Measurement of a Circle or Dimension of the Circle (Greek: Κύκλουμέτρησις, Kuklou metrēsis) is a treatise that consists of three propositions, probably made by Archimedes, ca.

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Melanoma

Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer; it develops from the melanin-producing cells known as melanocytes.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Parity (mathematics)

In mathematics, parity is the property of an integer of whether it is even or odd.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.

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Pythagorean triple

A Pythagorean triple consists of three positive integers,, and, such that.

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Richmond Hill, Queens

Richmond Hill is a commercial and residential neighborhood located in the southeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Sabetai Unguru

Sabetai Unguru (Shabtai Unguru; 1 January 1931 – 6 January 2024) was an Israeli historian of mathematics and science.

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Squaring the circle

Squaring the circle is a problem in geometry first proposed in Greek mathematics.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Straightedge and compass construction

In geometry, straightedge-and-compass construction – also known as ruler-and-compass construction, Euclidean construction, or classical construction – is the construction of lengths, angles, and other geometric figures using only an idealized ruler and a pair of compasses.

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The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems

The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems is a book on ancient Greek mathematics, focusing on three problems now known to be impossible if one uses only the straightedge and compass constructions favored by the Greek mathematicians: squaring the circle, doubling the cube, and trisecting the angle.

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