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    mathematics that "there is no Royal Road to geometry", according to Proclus. The same sentence is also attributed to Menaechmus replying to Alexander the...
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    Ptolemy I Soter (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    difficult to study, so he asked if there were an easier way to master it. According to Proclus, Euclid famously quipped: "Sire, there is no Royal Road to geometry...
    30 KB (3,108 words) - 14:44, 4 July 2024
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    Euclid (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    "there is no royal road to geometry". This anecdote is questionable since a very similar interaction between Menaechmus and Alexander the Great is recorded...
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    In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron comprising an n-sided polygon base, a second base which is a translated copy (rigidly moved without rotation) of the...
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    3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 Thomas Malton (1774). A Royal Road to Geometry: Or, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Mathematics. ... By Thomas Malton. ......
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  • History of algebra (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    introduction to geometry is repeated in the case of Ptolemy, who Euclid is reported to have assured that "there is no royal road to geometry"." (Boyer 1991...
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    The Ackermann steering geometry is a geometric arrangement of linkages in the steering of a car or other vehicle designed to solve the problem of wheels...
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  • Menaechmus (redirect from No royal road)
    shortcut to understanding geometry, he replied "O King, for traveling over the country, there are royal road and roads for common citizens, but in geometry there...
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    drawings to the Royal Academy. There are drawings by him in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1774 Malton published The Royal Road to Geometry; or an easy...
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    Egyptian geometry refers to geometry as it was developed and used in Ancient Egypt. Their geometry was a necessary outgrowth of surveying to preserve...
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    Road surface marking is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information; they are commonly placed...
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    Steering (redirect from Lock-to-lock)
    connecting the steering box and the wheels usually conform to a variation of Ackermann steering geometry, to account for the fact that in a turn, the inner wheel...
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  • E5 (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    codename for edobacomab E5 (EP), an album by Ivy Queen E5 polytope, in geometry E5 screw, a type of Edison screw E5, a postcode district in the E postcode...
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  • List of unsolved problems in mathematics (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    analysis, combinatorics, algebraic, differential, discrete and Euclidean geometries, graph theory, group theory, model theory, number theory, set theory,...
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    road safety organization Fatality Analysis Reporting System – US system to report fatal traffic crashes Geometric design of roads – Geometry of road design...
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    William Kingdon Clifford (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    mathematical physics, geometry, and computing. Clifford was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. In his philosophical...
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  • correspond to inertial motion within a curved geometry of spacetime in general relativity; there is no gravitational force deflecting objects from their...
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    James Joseph Sylvester (category Savilian Professors of Geometry)
    one of the original trustees to resign. In 1883, Sylvester returned to England to take up the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University. He held...
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    Yamaha YZF-R7 (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    (due to its race developed frame strength and geometry) and race styling with a single seat unit, that is distinctive when compared to its road-based...
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    youths. However, there are no records of fatalities or mysterious disappearances on or around Boy Scout Lane. Bray Road Elkhorn, Wisconsin is infamously known...
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