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    Wilbur Richard Knorr (August 29, 1945 – March 18, 1997) was an American historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments of philosophy and classics...
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  • in the Arabic manuscripts of the Arithmetica has been challenged by Wilbur Knorr, a historian of mathematics, who argues that the interpolations are "of...
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  • circle, doubling the cube, and trisecting the angle. It was written by Wilbur Knorr (1945–1997), a historian of mathematics, and published in 1986 by Birkhäuser...
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  • Knorr (1865–1946), German historian, Roman ceramologist (sigillata) Theresa Knorr (born 1946), American woman who murdered two children Wilbur Knorr (1945–1997)...
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  • mathematicians List of speakers in Plato's dialogues Quadratic irrational Wilbur Knorr Nails, Debra (2002). The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and...
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    Retrieved 2007-08-12. p. 72, The Geometry of Burning-Mirrors in Antiquity, Wilbur Knorr, Isis 74 #1 (March 1983), pp. 53–73, doi:10.1086/353176. pp. 465, 468...
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  • traditionally attributed to Hero of Alexandria. It has been studied recently by Wilbur Knorr, who suggested that the attribution to Hero is incorrect, and that the...
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    (1922–1969), novelist and poet who lived in Richmond Hill from 1950 to 1955 Wilbur Knorr (1945–1997), historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments...
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    (Trinity) Alexander William Kinglake (Trinity) James Klugmann (Trinity) Wilbur Knorr (unknown) David Knowles (Christ's/Peterhouse) John Langbein (Trinity...
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  • (1906–1990)[b][c] David M. Knight (1936–2018) Sue Knight Joshua Knobe (born 1974) Wilbur Knorr (1945–1997) Dudley Knowles (1947–2014) Adrienne Koch (1913–1971) Hans...
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  • English journalist and author. Jean Fievez, 86, Belgian football player. Wilbur Knorr, 51, American historian of mathematics, melanoma. Ilse Schwidetzky, 89...
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  • most of Euclid's proofs. More recent revisionist commentators such as Wilbur Knorr and David Fowler have accused historians of early Greek mathematics writing...
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  • Institutions Harvard University, Princeton University Notable students Wilbur Knorr, William R. Newman, Shigehisa Kuriyama Main interests Ancient Greek and...
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  • worden ist". Mediaeval Studies. 42: 61–88. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306255. Knorr, Wilbur R. (1990). "Paraphrase Editions of Latin Mathematical Texts: De figuris...
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    grocery stores and supermarkets. Some commercial powdered mixes, such as Knorr, are available to flavor the dip. The dip is well-suited to a simple presentation:...
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  • the golden ratio, then both pieces may be represented as apotomes. Knorr, Wilbur (1983), ""La croix des mathématiciens": the Euclidean theory of irrational...
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  • on Hypatia's mathematics, particularly relying on the earlier work of Wilbur Knorr, rather than formulating new theories on this aspect of Hypatia's work...
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    the task is to give rational approximations to the tangent of π/12. Knorr, Wilbur R. (1986-12-01). "Archimedes' dimension of the circle: A view of the...
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  • by Roger of Lincoln as "astronomus famosus" ("renowned astronomer"). Knorr, Wilbur R. (2004). "John of London". Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography...
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    Dictionary s.v. "gramma" Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, 1879 Knorr, Wilbur R. (1996). "Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris". In Hornblower, Simon;...
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    126 (7): 610–619. doi:10.1080/00029890.2019.1604052. ISSN 0002-9890. Knorr, Wilbur R. (1976). "Archimedes and the Measurement of the Circle: A New Interpretation"...
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  • suggests that Hypatia may have known of, or even known, Pandrosion. Knorr, Wilbur Richard (1989), "Pappus' texts on cube duplication", Textual Studies...
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    reported by the Arabs to have given several proofs of the theorem." Knorr, Wilbur R. (1978). "Archimedes and the spirals: The heuristic background". Historia...
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    Kurzdialoge der Appendix Platonica, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1975, pp. 105–106 Knorr, Wilbur Richard (1986), The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems, Dover Books...
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  • ISBN 1-4212-6789-6 Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Geometry, Page 53 By Wilbur Richard Knorr ISBN 0-8176-3387-1 Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum...
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    Archived from the original on 2023-10-02. Retrieved September 24, 2016. Knorr, Wilbur R. (June 1976). "Archimedes and the measurement of the circle: a new...
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     1 (Abailard–Berg), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 169–170. Knorr, Wilbur (1983). "The Geometry of Burning-Mirrors in Antiquity". Isis. 74 (1):...
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  • (1996), The Book of Numbers, New York: Copernicus, Figure 2.15, p. 34. Knorr, Wilbur Richard (1975), The evolution of the Euclidean elements, Dordrecht-Boston...
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    Mathematica Scientia, 25. Iamblichus, Vita Pythagorica, 34 (247). Wilbur Richard Knorr (1975), The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements: A Study of the Theory...
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    George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project. Wilbur R. Knorr, "Construction as existence proof in ancient geometry", p. 125, as...
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