One Long Tail
TERRITORY III

Alexandria's Scholars

287 BCE - 415 CE
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Builds on II · Proof from Measurement
Apollonius: Master of Conic Sections
Lesson 91
The Nine-Point Circle: A Hidden Gem of Triangle Geometry
Lesson 92
Apollonius and the Tangent Problem
Lesson 94
Nicomachus and the Classification of Numbers
Lesson 101
Archimedes and Pi: Squeezing the Circle
Lesson 102
Eratosthenes: Measuring the Earth with a Stick
Lesson 119
Heron of Alexandria: The Engineer-Mathematician
Lesson 122
The Method of Exhaustion: Ancient Integration
Lesson 147
Archimedes: The Greatest Mathematician of Antiquity
Lesson 153
The Method: Archimedes' Secret Calculus
Lesson 154
Archimedes and the Area of a Parabola
Lesson 155
The Sand Reckoner: Counting Beyond Imagination
Lesson 157
The Death of Archimedes: When Rome Conquered Mathematics
Lesson 159
The Sieve of Eratosthenes: Filtering Out Primes
Lesson 160
Hipparchus: The Father of Trigonometry
Lesson 161
Ptolemy's Chord Table: Ancient Trigonometry
Lesson 163
Diophantus: The Father of Algebra
Lesson 164
Diophantine Equations: When Only Whole Numbers Count
Lesson 165
Hypatia: The Last Light of Alexandria
Lesson 166
Heron's Formula: Triangle Area from Sides Alone
Lesson 178
Perfect Numbers: When Parts Equal the Whole
Lesson 180
Pappus of Alexandria: The Last Great Greek Mathematician
Lesson 183
Ancient Probability: Divination, Dice, and Chance
Lesson 184
Archimedes' Stomachion: The Ancient Combinatorics Puzzle
Lesson 188
Archimedes and the Spiral: Curves Beyond Circles
Lesson 194
Ptolemy's Inequality and the Power of Geometric Reasoning
Lesson 195
Menelaus' Theorem: Trigonometry on the Sphere
Lesson 198
Diophantus' Epitaph: A Mathematical Riddle
Lesson 200