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Alexandria algebra analytical ancient Apollonius Arabic Archimedes Archytas arithmetical astronomer Athens Axiom of Archimedes became Bernoulli Briggs calculus called Cayley century circle conic cube curve Democritus Desargues Descartes Diophantus discovered discovery E. H. SHEPARD E. V. LUCAS early Egypt Egyptian ellipse England equal equation Euclid Eudoxus Euler example fact famous Fcap Fermat figures fluxions followed formula friends Gauss gave genius geometry given Greek mathematics Hamilton Hippocrates history of mathematics Illustrated by E. H. important interest invented irrational numbers Kepler known Lagrange later Leibniz length lived logarithm Maclaurin mathe mathematicians matics measure method method of exhaustions Napier natural Newton notation numbers original Pappus parabola Pascal philosophers planet planetary Plato problem proved Pythagoras Pythagorean quarternions ratio remarkable right angles solution solved square straight line surface symbol Thales theorem theory of numbers things thought tion triangle volume whole numbers wonderful