#Euclid

Космический телескоп «Хаббл» помог сделать открытие, запечатлев спиральную галактику IC 4709, расположенную в 240 миллионах световых лет от нас в южном созвездии Телескоп. Галактика IC 4709 является уникальным объектом, содержащим активное галактическое ядро (AGN), которое представляет собой

Source: Futility Closet What rules underlie natural conversation? In a lecture at Harvard in 1967, British philosopher H.P. Grice set out to specify them using a mathematical approach, as Euclid had done in plane geometry. First, he said, the participants in a conversation follow a Cooperative

Source: Futility Closet The Chinese mathematician Liu Hui offered this technique in a text composed about 500 years after Euclid. We’re on the mainland, and we want to find the height of a mountain on a distant island without crossing the sea. Liu Hui showed that this can be accomplished by

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare,” Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote in her lovely ode to how the father of geometry transformed the way we see and comprehend the world. But although the ancient Alexandrian mathematician provided humanity’s only