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15 Sep 2003 12:18:21 PM |
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OT: Greeks 'borrowed Egyptian numbers' |
Greeks 'borrowed Egyptian numbers'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3109806.stm
By Paul Rincon
BBC Science
The astronomers, physicists and mathematicians of ancient Greece were
true innovators.
But one thing it seems the ancient Greeks did not invent was the
counting system on which many of their greatest thinkers based their
pioneering calculations.
New research suggests the Greeks borrowed their system known as
alphabetic numerals from the Egyptians, and did not develop it
themselves as was long believed.
Greek alphabetic numerals were favoured by the mathematician and
physicist Archimedes, the scientific philosopher Aristotle and the
mathematician Euclid, amongst others.
Stephen Chrisomalis
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Stephen+Chrisomalis%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Stephen+Chrisomalis%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Stephen+Chrisomalis%22&sa=N&tab=wg
OT: Some numbers you can't count on
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0305181043.69d1cf5c%40posting.google.com
and thread
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=356
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