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Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.
300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the " Father of Geometry ".
Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ( arithmetic ).
Geometry was revolutionized by Euclid, who introduced mathematical rigor and the axiomatic method still in use today.
The Geometry Engine was the first very-large-scale integration ( VLSI ) implementation of a geometry pipeline, specialized hardware that accelerated the " inner-loop " geometric computations needed to display three-dimensional images.
Dzerzhinsky received his school diploma that was stating following, " Dzerzhinsky Feliks who is 18 years of age, of catholic faith, along with a satisfactory attention and satisfactory diligence showed following successes in sciences, namely: Divine law-" good "; Logic, Latin, Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical geography, Physics, History ( of Russia ), French-" satisfactory "; Russian and Greek-" unsatisfactory ".
In 1861 he was promoted to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford.
It is widely believed that in 1617, Veranzio implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice and that the event was documented some thirty years later by John Wilkins, founder and secretary of the Royal Society in London in his book Mathematical Magick or, the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry, published in London in 1648.
He was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member of its council, Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which capacity he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire.
In 1664 Hooke also was appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College in London and Cutlerian Lecturer in Mechanics.
The zenith of his group's advancements was the Geometry Engine, an early hardware accelerator for rendering computer images based on geometric models which he developed in 1979 with his students at Stanford.
( The Freemasons equated the seven known planets with the several liberal arts of which the fifth, Geometry, was considered the most important ).
Geometry was no more limited to 3 dimensions.
GML geometry, for example, had been based on an earlier and only partly documented geometry model ( Simple Features Geometry ) and this was insufficient to support the more extensive and complex geometries described in TC / 211.
But it was rare for such methods to be translated into Latin ( a manual on Geometry, the eleventh century Geomatria incerti auctoris is a rare exception ), and such techniques appear to have percolated only slowly into the rest of Europe.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved was released on Xbox Live Arcade in 2005 and in particular stood out from the various re-releases and casual games available on the service.
This trend was somewhat reversed in the seventeenth century, with the University of Aberdeen creating a Mathematics Chair in 1613, followed by the Chair in Geometry being set up in University of Oxford in 1619 and the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics being established by the University of Cambridge in 1662.
Geometry as a demonstration of the ordered universe was celebrated throughout Persian gardens from the surface design features to the basic ground plane and its fourfold chahar bagh format, representing the four corners of the world in the ancient vernacular, and the four rivers of paradise more predominately associated with the Islamic period.
In 1993 he was promoted to a Professor of Geometry and Topology at the University of Ljubljana.
He was particularly talented in Geometry and Astronomy.
Her father, the Reverend Baden Powell, was the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford.
" This award, while certainly of major importance, never was reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, probably due to Carrington's bitter, acrimonious and public criticism of Cambridge University over the appointment of John Adams as the non-observing Director of the Cambridge Observatory ( added to Adams's pre-existing academic duties as the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry.
The Éléments de géométrie algébrique (" Elements of Algebraic Geometry ") by Alexander Grothendieck ( assisted by Jean Dieudonné ), or EGA for short, is a rigorous treatise, in French, on algebraic geometry that was published ( in eight parts or fascicles ) from 1960 through 1967 by the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
Notable examples are Geometry Wars, which was originally a minigame in Project Gotham Racing 2, and Arcomage, a relatively complex minigame, reminiscent of Magic: The Gathering, first introduced in Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor.

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Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.
* Center for Dynamics and Geometry, Penn State.
* Alfred Tarski ( 1951 ) A Decision Method for Elementary Algebra and Geometry.
* H. Abelson and A. diSessa, Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics, MIT Press ( 1980 )
Autosegmental phonology later evolved into Feature Geometry, which became the standard theory of representation for the theories of the organization of phonology as different as Lexical Phonology and Optimality Theory.
He has served as mathematics editor for Quantum Magazine, a youth science magazine, and as head of The Geometry Center.
In 2005 Thurston won the first AMS Book Prize, for Three-dimensional Geometry and Topology.
* Geometry types for points, linestrings, polygons, multipoints, multilinestrings, multipolygons and geometrycollections.
She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later as the New York Times bestselling author of four popular non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.
# René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind ; Discourse on the Method ; Geometry ; Meditations on First Philosophy
*' 400 Years of Geometry at Gresham College, lecture by Robin Wilson on Henry Briggs, given at Gresham College, 14 May 2008 ( available for video, audio and text download )
Following the 1966 Defence White Paper, the Air Ministry decided on two aircraft: the F-111K, with a longer-term replacement being a joint Anglo-French project for a variable geometry strike aircraft-the Anglo French Variable Geometry Aircraft ( AFVG ).
* Jean H. Gallier ( 2001 ) Geometric Methods and Applications for Computer Science and Engineering, Chapter 2: Basics of Affine Geometry, Springer Texts in Applied Mathematics # 38, chapter online from University of Pennsylvania ( PDF ).
Meanwhile, in order to make the proof of the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields that he had announced in 1940 work, he had to introduce the notion of an abstract variety and to rewrite the foundations of algebraic geometry to work with varieties without projective embeddings ( see also the history section in the Algebraic Geometry article ).
Geometry is being used here in a precise manner akin to Klein's notion of geometry ( see Geometrization conjecture for further details ).
* Noncommutative Geometry for Pedestrians by J. Madore
The reason for the Geometry Stacks, as they are called, is a direct consequence of the origin of the Way within the Thistledown, and its development through extension of the inertial dampening field of the Sixth Chamber.
** Center for Non-commutative Geometry
He is employed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, as well as at the Faculty of Education, where he is the Head of the Chair for Geometry and Topology.
In the aftermath of the cancellation of the TSR-2, the British had started a project with the French for the Anglo-French Variable Geometry aircraft ( AFVG ).

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