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    Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni dʒiˈrɔːlamo sakˈkɛːri]; 5 September 1667 – 25 October 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest...
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    A Saccheri quadrilateral is a quadrilateral with two equal sides perpendicular to the base. It is named after Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, who used it extensively...
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    Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, Chris Saccheri). In late 2003, Sequoia Capital led the Series A investment in the company...
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    limit to the area of a triangle. (Wallis axiom) The summit angles of the Saccheri quadrilateral are 90°. If a line intersects one of two parallel lines,...
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  • Girolamo Saccheri (18th century). The theorems of Ibn al-Haytham, Khayyam and al-Tusi on quadrilaterals, including the Lambert quadrilateral and Saccheri quadrilateral...
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  • In absolute geometry, the Saccheri–Legendre theorem states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is at most 180°. Absolute geometry is the geometry...
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  • (Gerolamo Saccheri, 1733; Adrien-Marie Legendre, early 19th century) There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180°. (Gerolamo Saccheri, 1733; Adrien-Marie...
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  • al-Din al-Tusi on quadrilaterals, including the Lambert quadrilateral and Saccheri quadrilateral, were part of a line of research on the parallel postulate...
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    Elements Foundations of geometry Hilbert's axioms Saccheri quadrilateral (considered earlier than Saccheri by Omar Khayyám) Lambert quadrilateral Eric W....
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    quadrilateral can be constructed from a Saccheri quadrilateral by joining the midpoints of the base and summit of the Saccheri quadrilateral. This line segment...
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    writing up of his experiments, so the work was carried on by Cook, Grant, Saccheri and James Mallet, and published on 8 February 2012 as "Selective bird predation...
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    doi:10.7554/eLife.68549. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 8289415. PMID 34280087. Saccheri IJ, Brakefield PM, Nichols RA. "Severe Inbreeding Depression and Rapid...
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    cases of acute, obtuse, and right angle for the summit angles of a Khayyam-Saccheri quadrilateral.: 283  After proving a number of theorems about them, he...
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    al-Dīn al-Tūsī, Witelo, Gersonides, Alfonso, and later Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, John Wallis, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Legendre. Their attempts were...
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    (rectangles). A tangential trapezoid is a trapezoid that has an incircle. A Saccheri quadrilateral is similar to a trapezoid in the hyperbolic plane, with two...
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    years. His most famous student was Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri. Under the tutelage of Ceva, Saccheri wrote his first work, titled Quaesita geometrica (Geometric...
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    Rowland, Hannah M.; van’t Hof, Arjen E.; Yung, Carl J.; Edmonds, Nicola; Saccheri, Ilik J. (2019). "Adaptive colour change and background choice behaviour...
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    single picture is due to Carl Friedrich Gauss (1841), who constructs the Saccheri quadrilateral (a quadrilateral with two adjacent right angles and two other...
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    Eacock, A.; Rowland, H. R.; van’t Hof, A. E.; Yung, C.; Edmonds, N.; Saccheri, I. J. (August 2019). "Caterpillars of the peppered moth perceive color...
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    Non-Euclidean geometry considers spaces where Euclid's parallel postulate fails. Saccheri first studied such geometries in 1733, but sought only to disprove them...
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    it may be argued that this proof makes use of some hidden assumptions. Saccheri gave a proof as well but using a more explicit assumption. In Hilbert's...
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    1711) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his theorem on Saccheri quadrilaterals. He may also be referred to as Vitale Giordani, Vitale Giordano...
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  • a triangle is larger than either of the remote angles), as well as the Saccheri–Legendre theorem, which states that the sum of the measures of the angles...
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    of the Entomological Society of America, 93(4), 825–835. Cook, L. M., Saccheri, I. J., 2013. The peppered moth and industrial melanism: evolution of a...
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  • 1016/j.endeavour.2006.01.005. PMID 16549216. Cook, L. M.; Grant, B. S.; Saccheri, I. J.; Mallet, J. (2012). "Selective bird predation on the peppered moth:...
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    Johann Jacob Heber (1666–1727) – surveyor and geometer Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri (1667–1733) – non-Euclidean geometry Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) Tobias...
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  • (UK, 20th century) Bertrand Russell (UK, 1872–1970) Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (Italy, 1667–1733) Raghunatha Siromani (India, c. 1477–1547) Gerald Sacks...
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  • Cuadritejidos planos. The corollarium II to the proposition XXIII of Saccheri's Euclides. Las Matemáticas en la España de los Austrias. Método de máximos...
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    natural selection". butterfly-conservation.org. Retrieved 2024-03-24. Saccheri, Ilik J. (October 2008). "Selection and gene flow on a diminishing cline...
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    Legendre sieve Legendre symbol Legendre's theorem on spherical triangles Saccheri–Legendre theorem Least squares Least-squares spectral analysis Seconds...
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