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| This number system has 9 digits, a zero, and is positional. |
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| This invention revolutionized the transmission of ideas, making knowledge accessible to a large audience. |
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| This geometric demonstration os solving the quadratic is still taught today. |
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| This corruption of al-Khowarizmi's name meant the art of computing with Hindu numerals. |
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| This civilization produces no mathematician of note. |
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| This area of mathematics was simultaneously developed by Fermat and Decartes. It wedded algebra to geometry. |
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| They rendered a lastking sevice to Europe by industriously translation into their own language the science of teh Greeks. |
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| They introduced western mathematics into China in the late 1500's. |
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| The Renaissance produced littlw in this area as compared to achievements in painting, literature, and architecture. |
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| The name the Newton used for the method witch is now called differential calculus. |
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| The name "algebra" is the European corruption of this word. |
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| The most pressing mathematical problem during the Carolingian Renaissance was establishing the exact date for this holiday. |
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| The main task of their scholarship was the absorption of the Greek legacy. |
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| The definition of logarithm. |
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| She was the first prominent woman mathematician. With her murder by Christian mobs, the era of Greek mathematics was at an end. |
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| Newton was the first scientist to receive this honor. It was conferred by Queen Anne in a ceremony at Cambridge in 1705. |
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| Mathematics was denounced from the pulpit as this king of art. |
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| Literary clubs were formed in the fashion of this culture. Only this language was spoken and all names were in this language. |
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| Leibniz corrected determined this rule the find the differential of xy. |
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| Leibniz asserted that he could find the sum of this provided that the series should converge. |
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| It was the practice during the 1500's to treat discoveries in this area as personal property, disclosing neither method of proof. |
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| It was compelled, if only to provide a literate clergy, to concern itself with education. |
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| In 1299 the city of Florence forbid merchants from using this number system for bookkeeping. |
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| His well-known statement to Hooke, "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants," shows his appreciation of the cumulative and progressive growth of mathematics. |
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| His career marks the turning point between medieval and modern mathematics. |
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| His accomplishments were in three main fields: pure mathematics, optics, and astronomy. |
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| He selected the = sign because, "No 2 lines can be more equal,: than two parallel straight lines. |
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| He probably stole his method for solving the cubic from Tartaglia |
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| He prepared the first set of common logarithms using base 10. |
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| He is remembered today mainly because Edouard Lucas attached his name to a sequence that appeared in a trivial problem in the Liber Abaci |
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| He is considered the last great mathematician of antiquity. |
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| He accused Cardan of lying, begging one of the bitterest feuds in the history of science, carried on with name-calling and mudslinging of the lowest order. |
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| Excessive loyalty to Newton's reputation kept them out of touch with mathematics developments for over a century. |
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| Europe discovered the great store of knowledge that the Moslems possessed during these wars. |
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| During the Renaissance, men tried to understand only with the ancients had done in this area, certain that this was the most that could be known. |
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| Descartes had the germinal idea of this, but did not introduce the y-axis. |
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| Cardan had a clear realization of the existence of these which Napier later called "the ghost of real numbers." |
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| After three centuries, he formally acknowledged that Galileo had been wrongfully condemned by the Inquisition. |
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| About 789, he ordained that every abbey and monastery throughout the realm should have its own school with the seven liberal arts as the curriculum. |
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