Sejarah matematika: Perbedaan antara revisi

Matematika Yunani merujuk pada matematika yang ditulis di dalam [[bahasa Yunani]] antara tahun 600 SM sampai 300 M.<ref>Howard Eves, ''An Introduction to the History of Mathematics'', Saunders, 1990, ISBN 0-03-029558-0</ref> Matematikawan Yunani tinggal di kota-kota sepanjang Mediterania bagian timur, dari [[Italia]] hingga ke [[Afrika Utara]], tetapi mereka dibersatukan oleh budaya dan bahasa yang sama. Matematikawan Yunani pada periode setelah [[Iskandar Agung]] kadang-kadang disebut Matematika Helenistik.

 

 

Thales used [[geometry]] to solve problems such as calculating the height of pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. He is credited the first use of deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to the [[Thales' Theorem]]. As a result, he has been hailed as the first true mathematician and the firs known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed to.<ref>{{Harv|Boyer|1991|loc="Ionia and the Pythagoreans" p. 43}}</ref> Pythagoras established the [[Pythagoreans|Pythagorean School]], whose doctrine it was that mathematics ruled the universe and whose motto was "All is number".<ref>{{Harv|Boyer|1991|loc="Ionia and the Pythagoreans" p. 49}}</ref> It was the Pythagoreans who coined the term "mathematics", and with whom the study of mathematics for its own sake begins. The Pythagoreans are credited with the first proof of the [[Pythagorean theorem]],<ref>Eves, Howard, An Introduction to the History of Mathematics, Saunders, 1990, ISBN 0-03-029558-0.</ref> though the statement of the theorem has a long history, and with the proof of the existence of irrational numbers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}