Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
geometry:
- of lines, angles, triangles
- Euclid’s five postulates
- geometric constructions
- developments through time
Elaboration
- problems from the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
- Pythagoras
- Hippocrates and construction problems of antiquity
- geometry in Euclid’s Elements, Archimedes, Apollonius, Pappus’s Book III
- Indian and Arabic contributions
- Descartes and Fermat
keywords
geometry