Essays on Geometry

In the chaos and hustle of everyday life, it is not often that an individual will stop to take a deeper look at the world that surrounds her. But if she was to pause for only a moment, open her eyes, and truly take in...

Geometry along with music, arithmetic and astronomy, made up the Quadrivium, the four quantitative areas of learning in the ancient Greek world and advocated in the middle ages as essential for the education of all human beings. Even though the educated person would usually have...

Creating dentures or crowns are in need of geometry. Geometry deals with lengths, area and volume and in dentistry, this would provide precise information that the practitioner is concerned to. In this paragraph, geometry specifically tackles the creation of dentures and crowns. Using the angle...

“ In mathematics the Pythagorean theorem, also known as pythagoras theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle.” Stephanie J. Morris says “This famous theorem is named for the greek mathematician and philosopher, Pythagoras. Pythagoras founded the...

Early geometry goes back to about 3000 BC, as one of the first advancements of geometry. It started in Europe as the Egyptians used it in many ways such as, surveying of land, construction of the pyramids and astronomy. The next advancement came from the...

Geometry was invented by Euclid from the Plato Academy in 325-265 B.C. The way geometry got its name, is from the ancient Greek words geo – meaning earth, and metron meaning measurement. He wrote geometry in a treatise which consisted of thirteen books. Each book...

Archimedes compared the area enclosed by a circle to a right triangle whose base has the length of the circle’s circumference and whose height equals the circle’s radius. If the area of the circle is not equal to that of the triangle, then it must...

(f) They store grain for long periods in winter and if the grain begins to bud, they cut the roots, as if they understand that if they leave it to grow, it will rot. If the grain stored by them gets wet due to rains,...

Hypatia was the earliest female mathematician. She was born 350 CE and died 415 CE. This makes her about 65 years of age. She was the daughter of Theon. He was a mathematician and an astronomer. Theon is most known for his preservation of Euclid’s...

The bending active is a term used for structures or surfaces that are based on the elastic deformation of their initial planar geometry. The bending active approach is nowadays leading term in lightweight design, kinetic and deployable structures. Unlike older approaches for deployable systems that...