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| This body of knowledge involves the study of issues of quantitative or spatial nature. |
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| This is the earliest technique for visibly expressing the ideas of numbers. |
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| This was a noteworthy improvement on counting by ones. |
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| By 3500 B.C. they had a fully developed number system that would allow counting to continue indefinitely. |
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| This technique assigns different values to symbols based on their location in a numerical representation. |
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| This technique uses a single mark to represent a collection of like symbols. |
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| Cuneiform script was a natural consequence of these people choosing to write on clay. |
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| It is the oldest and most continuously pursued of the exact sciences. |
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| This is the oldest and most universal procedure of solving linear equations. |
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| In their mathematics everything is stated in terms of specific numbers, and nowhere does one find a trace of what might properly be called a theorem. |
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| They had a symbol for "that which is unknown" is very close to an "X" |
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| Math for this group seems to have been a detached intellectual subject for the connoisseur. |
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| Their doctrine was a curious mixture of cosmic philosophy and number mysticism. Their school was more of a fraternity. |
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| It is the first example of a curve that could not be drawn by the required straightedge and compass. It had to be drawn point by point. |
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| After he conquered the known world, the scene of mathematical activity shifted back to Egypt. |
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| The library of this city housed the largest collection of Greeks work in existence. |
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| These shook the foundations of Pythagorean doctrine since they maintained "everything is number." |
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| The Greeks insistence of working entirely in this area of mathematics retarded progress in algebra of many centuries. |
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| He observed: "If it were not for the vast extent of the Atlantic Sea one might sail for Iberia (Spain) to India along one and the same parallel. |
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| His error int he distance between Europe and Asia fortified Columbus' belief that Columbus had reached India |
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