The Book of Lemmas or Book of Assumptions (Arabic Maʾkhūdhāt Mansūba ilā Arshimīdis) is a book attributed to Archimedes by Thābit ibn Qurra, though the...
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altitudes of a triangle concur (at the orthocenter) is not directly stated in surviving Greek mathematical texts, but is used in the Book of Lemmas (proposition...
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earliest known reference to this figure is in Archimedes's Book of Lemmas, where some of its mathematical properties are stated as Propositions 4 through...
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Archimedes (redirect from Archimedes of Syracuse)
Archimedes' Book of Lemmas or Liber Assumptorum is a treatise with 15 propositions on the nature of circles. The earliest known copy of the text is in...
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Greek) is a geometrical figure that consists of four semicircles. It was first introduced in the Book of Lemmas, a work attributed to Archimedes. Let A, D...
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appeared in the Book of Lemmas, which showed (Proposition V) that the two circles are congruent. Thābit ibn Qurra, who translated this book into Arabic,...
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on Archimedes's Book of Lemmas and Menelaus's theorem (Kitab al-ishba, or "satiation"), where he made corrections to the Book of Lemmas as translated into...
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Archimedean circle was first constructed by Archimedes in his Book of Lemmas. In his book, he constructed what is now known as Archimedes' twin circles...
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Greek mathematics (redirect from Mathematics of Greece)
Conics books V to VII Apollonius, Cutting Off of a Ratio Archimedes, Book of Lemmas Archimedes, Construction of the Regular Heptagon Diocles, On Burning Mirrors...
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On Floating Bodies Book of Lemmas The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems Apollonius of Perga On Conic Sections Nicomachus of Gerasa Introduction to...
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Archimedes' quadruplets (section Proof of congruency)
semicircle with radius r2. According to Proposition 5 of Archimedes' Book of Lemmas, the common radius of Archimedes' twin circles is: r 1 ⋅ r 2 r . {\displaystyle...
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Pseudo-Archimedes, the Book of Lemmas, is an Arabic treatise not listed among Archimedes' works. Donald Routledge Hill is of the opinion that the original...
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Burnside's lemma, sometimes also called Burnside's counting theorem, the Cauchy–Frobenius lemma, or the orbit-counting theorem, is a result in group theory...
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In mathematics, Schur's lemma is an elementary but extremely useful statement in representation theory of groups and algebras. In the group case it says...
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Cyclic quadrilateral (category Types of quadrilaterals)
q1 and q2. Then (the first equality is Proposition 11 in Archimedes' Book of Lemmas) D 2 = p 1 2 + p 2 2 + q 1 2 + q 2 2 = a 2 + c 2 = b 2 + d 2 {\displaystyle...
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Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a proposition of set theory. It states that a partially ordered set containing upper bounds...
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create another continuous function. The lemma is implicit in the use of piecewise functions. For example, in the book Topology and Groupoids, where the condition...
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In mathematics, the Yoneda lemma is a fundamental result in category theory. It is an abstract result on functors of the type morphisms into a fixed object...
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Euclid's lemma is a lemma that captures a fundamental property of prime numbers: Euclid's lemma — If a prime p divides the product ab of two integers...
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lemma, named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz, is a result in complex analysis about holomorphic functions from the open unit disk to itself. The lemma is...
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Terrae, epitome of Aristarchus of Samos's On the Sizes and Distances Lemmata Archimedis, translation by John Greaves of the Book of Lemmas, attributed to...
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Proofs from THE BOOK is a book of mathematical proofs by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler. The book is dedicated to the mathematician Paul Erdős, who...
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Shephard's lemma is a major result in microeconomics having applications in the theory of the firm and in consumer choice. The lemma states that if indifference...
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In mathematics, Hensel's lemma, also known as Hensel's lifting lemma, named after Kurt Hensel, is a result in modular arithmetic, stating that if a univariate...
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Vocabulary (section Definition of "word")
Between the ages of 20 and 60, people learn about 6,000 more lemmas, or one every other day. An average 20-year-old knows 42,000 lemmas coming from 11,100...
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Orthodiagonal quadrilateral (category Types of quadrilaterals)
q1 and q2. Then (the first equality is Proposition 11 in Archimedes' Book of Lemmas) D 2 = p 1 2 + p 2 2 + q 1 2 + q 2 2 = a 2 + c 2 = b 2 + d 2 {\displaystyle...
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Laurence A (1977-07-01). "Cubical sperner lemmas as applications of generalized complementary pivoting". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A. 23 (1):...
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The Steinitz exchange lemma is a basic theorem in linear algebra used, for example, to show that any two bases for a finite-dimensional vector space have...
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of Sidon (Stoic) Boios Boium Bolbe Bolina Bolina (Achaea) Bomolochus Book of Lemmas Boreads Boreas Borghese Gladiator Borghese Vase Bormus Borus Borysthenes...
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Titu's lemma, Bergström's inequality, Engel's form or Sedrakyan's inequality, respectively, referring to the article About the applications of one useful...
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