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  • Thumbnail for Pell's equation
    integer, and integer solutions are sought for x and y. In Cartesian coordinates, the equation is represented by a hyperbola; solutions occur wherever the...
    51 KB (6,689 words) - 05:20, 10 April 2025
  • Plotinus, the second emanation represents an uncreated second cause (see Pythagoras' Dyad). Plotinus sought to reconcile Aristotle's energeia with Plato's...
    43 KB (5,767 words) - 22:51, 7 May 2025
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    Johannes Kepler (redirect from Ch. Frisch)
    musica universalis or "music of the spheres", which had been studied by Pythagoras, Ptolemy and others before Kepler; in fact, soon after publishing Harmonice...
    103 KB (12,713 words) - 07:48, 7 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Number theory
    integer solutions. (i.e., Diophantine equations for which there are no integer solutions, since, given a Diophantine equation with at least one solution, the...
    88 KB (11,250 words) - 19:21, 5 May 2025
  • Books. ISBN 1-57863-203-X. Dudley, Underwood (1997). Numerology, Or, What Pythagoras Wrought. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-88385-524-0. DuQuette, Lon...
    13 KB (1,672 words) - 18:31, 17 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Physics
    used to describe the order in nature. This was noted and advocated by Pythagoras, Plato, Galileo, and Newton. Some theorists, like Hilary Putnam and Penelope...
    83 KB (8,952 words) - 21:47, 21 April 2025
  • has been defended by C.J. de Vogel, Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism (1966), pp. 97–102, and C. Riedweg, Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, And Influence...
    60 KB (6,959 words) - 08:06, 4 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Square root
    with the circle and denote the length CH as h. Then, using Thales' theorem and, as in the proof of Pythagoras' theorem by similar triangles, triangle...
    48 KB (6,200 words) - 03:23, 23 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Law of cosines
    1, or 0 positive solutions corresponding to the number of possible triangles given the data. It will have two positive solutions if b sin γ < c < b...
    38 KB (5,891 words) - 06:48, 20 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pythagorean triple
    for integer solutions, the equation a2 + b2 = c2 is a Diophantine equation. Thus Pythagorean triples are among the oldest known solutions of a nonlinear...
    81 KB (11,398 words) - 22:16, 1 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cartesian coordinate system
    } which can be obtained by two consecutive applications of Pythagoras' theorem. The Euclidean transformations or Euclidean motions are the (bijective)...
    41 KB (5,520 words) - 15:25, 28 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Altitude (triangle)
    {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}ah_{a}={\tfrac {1}{2}}bh_{b}={\tfrac {1}{2}}ch_{c}} , the triangle inequality a < b + c {\displaystyle a<b+c} implies 1 h...
    9 KB (1,334 words) - 18:39, 21 April 2025
  • used to find solutions to metaphysical problems, especially the discovery of the foundations of morality. Kant claimed that these solutions could be found...
    97 KB (11,587 words) - 13:11, 21 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Italy
    and modern philosophy. Formal philosophy was introduced to Italy by Pythagoras, founder of the Italian school of philosophy in Crotone. Italian philosophers...
    297 KB (26,618 words) - 18:20, 7 May 2025
  • orthonormal basis for our coordinates; then the squared distance to P, by Pythagoras, is d 2 ( O , P ) = ‖ p ‖ 2 = ∑ r = 1 n p r 2 {\displaystyle d^{2}(O,P)=\|\mathbf...
    102 KB (15,724 words) - 16:17, 7 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Square trisection
    gave two solutions, one of which uses 8 pieces. In the late 17th century Jacques Ozanam came back to this issue and in the 19th century, solutions using...
    6 KB (551 words) - 21:05, 8 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Isaac Newton
    England: Samuel Jallasson. p. 104. From p. 104: 'In the like Manner Pythagoras ow'd the Invention of Musik to the noise of the Hammer of a Blacksmith...
    170 KB (18,253 words) - 05:16, 7 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Albert Einstein
    Particles?". These solutions cut and pasted Schwarzschild black holes to make a bridge between two patches. Because these solutions included spacetime...
    226 KB (22,790 words) - 17:13, 27 April 2025
  • that they somehow purified the blood and so cured all manner of illness.: Ch.6  The first such preparation that is known to use the term "panacea" for...
    20 KB (2,386 words) - 20:43, 30 March 2025
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    inventor, Alexander Friedmann. The solutions for R(t) depend on k and Λ, but some qualitative features of such solutions are general. First and most importantly...
    154 KB (15,973 words) - 23:54, 29 April 2025
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