ANTOINE HOULOU-GARCIA
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62 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°193Mar 19, 2020The translation of Greek mathematical texts
Greek mathematical texts influenced the entire history of mathematics around the Mediterranean. Yet Greek was not always spoken by every scholar. Ancient texts therefore had to be translated to make them accessible to as many people as possible.
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Math for everyoneN°192Jan 23, 2020When numbers awoke to wonder
Ancient peoples used numbers for purely practical purposes: to count and enumerate. Five centuries before the Common Era, after travelling the world, a Greek scholar named Pythagoras returned certain that the original order of the World was Number, thereby turning it into a philosophical concept.
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