Greek Contributions to Math
By NS
Important people
• Pythagoras • Plato • Aristotle
The Golden Age 5th century
• axiomatic approach to geometry • concept of infinity
The Greeks focus mostly on Geometry
• Geometry • Pretty much every century
Other achievements
• astronomy, geometry, and cartography
Why the progressed so much
• Alphabet • They taught geometry and other subjects
rd 3
century
• Estimate of pi • Exhaustion theory
th 6
century
• Pythagorean theorem
Bibliography
• http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/s ci/A0859534.html • http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~m atwyl/noneuclidean_geometry_notes.pdf • http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dall en/history/greekorg/greekorg.ht ml
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