squaring the circle
51Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor — Born October 18, 1792 Grafton, Massachusetts Died February 11, 1879 Albion, Michigan Nationali …
52Eugene Lyons — (1 July1898 ndash;7 January1985) was a U.S. journalist and writer. At one time a Communist fellow traveler, he became highly critical of the Soviet Union after he lived there for a few years.He was born to a Jewish family in Uzlyany in what is… …
53Bryson of Heraclea — (ca. 450 BCE ca. 390 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and sophist who contributed to solving the problem of squaring the circle and calculating pi. Life and workAlthough little is known about the life of Bryson, it is believed that he was… …
54Timeline of algebra and geometry — A timeline of algebra and geometryBefore 1000 BC* ca. 2000 BC Scotland, Carved Stone Balls exhibit a variety of symmetries including all of the symmetries of Platonic solids. * 1800 BC Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, findings volume of a frustum *… …
55Konstantinos Tzechanis — Cover of Εγχειρίδιον αριθμητικής (Manual of Mathematics), printed in Halle, 1769 Born 1740 Moscopole, Ottoman Empire, present day Albania …
56Niel Hancock — (born January 8, 1941, died May 7, 2011 in Deming, New Mexico) is an American fantasy writer most famous for authoring the Circle of Light series. After being out of print for several years, his novels are being reprinted by Tor Books. Hancock s… …
57List of mathematics articles (S) — NOTOC S S duality S matrix S plane S transform S unit S.O.S. Mathematics SA subgroup Saccheri quadrilateral Sacks spiral Sacred geometry Saddle node bifurcation Saddle point Saddle surface Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics Safe prime Safe… …
58Alhazen — For the Moon crater, see Alhazen (crater). For the asteroid, see 59239 Alhazen. Alhazen Alhazen (Ibn al Haytham) …
59Ibn al-Haytham — Infobox Muslim scholars | notability = Muslim scientist| era = Islamic Golden Age| color = #cef2e0 | | image caption = Ibn al Haytham drawing taken from a 1982 Iraqi 10 dinar note. | | name = Unicode|Abū ‘Alī al Ḥasan ibn al Ḥasan ibn al Haytham… …
60number game — Introduction any of various puzzles and games that involve aspects of mathematics. Mathematical recreations comprise puzzles and games that vary from naive amusements to sophisticated problems, some of which have never been solved.… …
