following is a timeline of key developments of geometry: ca. 2000 BC – Scotland, carved stone balls exhibit a variety of symmetries including all of the symmetries...
12 KB (1,413 words) - 23:26, 5 May 2024
geometry Conformal geometry Constructive solid geometry Contact geometry Convex geometry Descriptive geometry Differential geometry Digital geometry Discrete...
13 KB (910 words) - 14:17, 27 June 2024
of four dimensions Timeline of geometry – Notable events in the history of geometry History of Euclidean geometry History of non-Euclidean geometry History...
48 KB (6,299 words) - 03:48, 22 August 2024
Geometry (from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría) 'land measurement'; from γῆ (gê) 'earth, land' and μέτρον (métron) 'a measure') is a branch of mathematics...
100 KB (9,886 words) - 03:41, 24 August 2024
Timeline of geometry – Notable events in the history of geometry Timeline of mathematical logic Boyer, Carl B.; Merzbach, Uta C. (2011), A History of Mathematics...
25 KB (2,108 words) - 00:06, 7 May 2024
Geometry Wars is a series of top-down multi-directional shooter video games developed by Bizarre Creations, and, later, Lucid Games. Originally published...
9 KB (762 words) - 00:20, 28 July 2024
Timeline of ancient Greek mathematicians Timeline of geometry – Notable events in the history of geometry Timeline of mathematical logic Timeline of mathematics...
14 KB (1,590 words) - 22:41, 2 July 2024
non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry. As Euclidean geometry lies at the...
44 KB (6,023 words) - 21:22, 27 August 2024
In mathematics, projective geometry is the study of geometric properties that are invariant with respect to projective transformations. This means that...
39 KB (5,094 words) - 06:40, 31 August 2024
mathematics, Diophantine geometry is the study of Diophantine equations by means of powerful methods in algebraic geometry. By the 20th century it became...
8 KB (935 words) - 19:55, 6 May 2024
Spherical geometry or spherics (from Ancient Greek σφαιρικά) is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere or the n-dimensional surface of higher...
15 KB (1,955 words) - 02:05, 6 May 2024
Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements...
58 KB (7,005 words) - 02:24, 31 August 2024
mathematics, affine geometry is what remains of Euclidean geometry when ignoring (mathematicians often say "forgetting") the metric notions of distance and angle...
20 KB (2,632 words) - 15:31, 19 June 2024
hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean...
56 KB (7,019 words) - 21:44, 8 August 2024
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometrical problems...
61 KB (7,500 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2024
Elliptic geometry is an example of a geometry in which Euclid's parallel postulate does not hold. Instead, as in spherical geometry, there are no parallel...
18 KB (2,642 words) - 01:10, 21 August 2024
This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history. It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical...
64 KB (7,790 words) - 18:58, 6 September 2024
Absolute geometry is a geometry based on an axiom system for Euclidean geometry without the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. Traditionally...
9 KB (1,111 words) - 14:19, 23 May 2024
In geometry, a point is an abstract idealization of an exact position, without size, in physical space, or its generalization to other kinds of mathematical...
14 KB (1,582 words) - 16:37, 16 May 2024
In mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system. This contrasts...
40 KB (5,612 words) - 00:31, 8 July 2024
Synthetic geometry (sometimes referred to as axiomatic geometry or even pure geometry) is geometry without the use of coordinates. It relies on the axiomatic...
14 KB (1,747 words) - 13:00, 25 July 2024
This is a timeline of category theory and related mathematics. Its scope ("related mathematics") is taken as: Categories of abstract algebraic structures...
87 KB (273 words) - 03:07, 23 August 2024
A finite geometry is any geometric system that has only a finite number of points. The familiar Euclidean geometry is not finite, because a Euclidean...
22 KB (2,841 words) - 13:36, 12 April 2024
arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around...
15 KB (1,464 words) - 19:56, 6 May 2024
Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It...
46 KB (5,912 words) - 08:09, 21 August 2024
The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific breakthroughs, theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer. This...
91 KB (10,347 words) - 07:44, 8 September 2024
geometry is the study of geometric structures and constructions arising out of, or described by, the complex numbers. In particular, complex geometry...
26 KB (3,677 words) - 14:31, 7 September 2023
Diameter (redirect from Diameter (geometry))
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It...
8 KB (1,018 words) - 23:01, 6 September 2024
In geometry, a straight line, usually abbreviated line, is an infinitely long object with no width, depth, or curvature, an idealization of such physical...
30 KB (4,299 words) - 15:00, 7 September 2024
A timeline of numerals and arithmetic. c. 20,000 BC — Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: suggested, though disputed, as the earliest reference to prime numbers...
10 KB (1,287 words) - 21:25, 8 July 2024