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...first, scholars used the support to translate scientific classics from China, Greece, India and Mesopotamia. Soon, however, Muslim intellectuals were not content just to reproduce others' works, and began to elaborate on them, making their own important discoveries and innovations. Muslim mathematicians took principles developed in Greece, such as Euclid's theories of numbers and geometry, and the Indian concept of zero, as the basis for developing such new disciplines as calculus and trigonometry. Of the early math books on view, the illustrated Treatise on Geometry is significant for its author, the Muslim king of Saragossa, Spain, and its date...
...know that girl? Who goes to MIT? Who I met at that summer math program, and we, you know, kinda dated? Well so I’m taking this seminar on Euclid, and I know she really likes math history, so I went over to MIT to show her my sourcebook. So we’re discussing some theorems, and all of a sudden, her shirt comes...
MICHAEL DELEHANTY Euclid, Ohio...
...frustrating romance with stuffy Charles Grodin. “At last, Mr. Wrong,” the video’s cover cries. Clayburgh cavorts and spars with bad boy Michael Douglas while struggling for a breakthrough proof that will, she insists, put her on par with Euclid and Newton...
Three years ago, Bill Sopko Sr. made the biggest gamble of his business career. With the economy booming, Sopko, the owner of an automotive-parts plant in Euclid, Ohio, invested $6 million in the latest gear to manufacture a critical brake component for heavy trucks. With a new 3,000-ton stamping press, he would reduce costs from $14 per unit to $9. Recouping his investment, he knew, could take as long as 10 years. But with plenty of orders in the pipeline, Sopko figured he had made a shrewd move. What he didn't calculate was getting caught...