14 sentences with “mathematics”

My brother is a brilliant mathematics student.

The cylinder is a geometric figure widely used in mathematics.

Geometry is the branch of mathematics that studies shapes and figures.

Aristotle wrote on everything from physics to astronomy and from mathematics to drama.

- Astronomy: Just as mathematics is necessary for engineering, astronomy is necessary for a sophisticated calendar.

Once this happened, other discoveries and developments followed, from writing to mathematics to organised religion.

Although political theory did not enjoy a period of growth during the period, there were significant achievements in science and mathematics.

- Mathematics: without mathematics there can be no advanced engineering, and without engineering there can be no irrigation, walls or great buildings.

The ancient Mesopotamians were the first in the world to develop advanced mathematics largely because they were also the most sophisticated engineers in the ancient world.

Euclid's work on geometry, The Elements, was still used as the standard textbook in many mathematics courses well into the 20th century, thousands of years after its composition.

In mathematics: the creation of Arabic numerals, based on Hindu characters, which were much easier to work with than the clumsy Roman equivalents. In turn, the Abbasids invented algebra and trigonometry.

Many of the great scientific advances that followed, including mathematics, astronomy and engineering, along with political networks and forms of organisation such as kingdoms, empires and bureaucracy, originated in Mesopotamia.

Many of the different elements of Western Civilisation, things like scientific research, the religions of the book (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), engineering and mathematics, were originally conceived in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

The Hittites passed on Mesopotamian technologies (including mathematics, astronomy and engineering), as well as Mesopotamian legends such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the latter of which may have undergone a long process of translation and reinterpretation to become the Greek story of Hercules.