The Alexandrian School: Euclid Flashcards
Who wrote elements?
Euclid
What is the postulate 5?
The parallel Postulate
Who Proposed the idea of a heliocnetric solar system?
Aristorchus
Who wrote about the measure ment of circles, and on the sphere and cyclinders?
Archimedes (Ca, 287-212 BC
Who Wrote Floating Bodies
Archimedes
Who was the Cheif Librarian at alexardira? and what was his great discovery
Eratosthevis and he measure teh circumfrenece of the earth
Who wrote on Conic sections?
Apollonius
Who improved Eudosxus model of the solar system?
Hipparchus
Who created Synatxis Mathmatica?
Ptolemy
What did Ptolemy create?
He created an accurate Geochentic model the solar system with around 90 spheres
What is Euclids Elements?
is it a collection of 13 book which constist of the basic geometrey, Geometic algebra,… platonic solids.
There was a book about “solving” a quadratic equation by using a stright edge and compass compass, and there was only 3 types of quadratic equation
Who found the measurement of the circle and how did he do it?
Archimeds
Archimeds used n-gon to discover the measurement of a circle
How did Archimdes prove show that an area of a triangle is equal the area of a circle
It was done by 3 cases in which 2 of them were proved by contractiction in which A=T.
How does an area of inscribed circle compare to a area of a circumscribed circle.
This was done by a squze therom in which, they all approcah the same A
What is the method of exhaustion?
the idea that some maguidted can be made as small as we like
