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The Greeks invented or at least were pioneers in geometry and trigonometry. Diophantus's “Arithemtica” was an important work. Euclid is regarded as the father of geometry. Euclidian geometry is still widely studied. Many of his principals still form the basis of high school geometry textbooks.
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.
Probably the most famous name during the development of Greek geometry is Pythagoras, even if only for the famous law concerning right angled triangles. This mathematician lived in a secret society which took on a semi-religious mission.
31 lip 2023 · Greek mathematics, the study of numbers and their properties, patterns, structure, space, apparent change, and measurement, is said to have originated with Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE) but was clearly understood during the periods of the Minoan civilization (2000-1450 BCE) and the Mycenaean Civilization (c. 1700-1100 BCE) and was derived fr...
14 wrz 2001 · Beginning about the 6th century bce, the Greeks gathered and extended this practical knowledge and from it generalized the abstract subject now known as geometry, from the combination of the Greek words geo (“Earth”) and metron (“measure”) for the measurement of the Earth.
The Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Indians studied and invented certain early geometric principles but the Greeks took what had been discovered and made crucial advancements that have shaped modern geometry today.
The word geometry is derived from two Greek words, namely γη, gē, which means earth and μετρον, metron, which means measure. Our sources on early Greek geometry — and mathematics in general, for that matter — are sparse.
