Monday, April 18, 2011

Downhill

200 B.C.E.
Dionysodorus of Amisus (c. 200?)
Diocles of Carystus (fl. c. 180)
Hypsicles of Alexandria (fl. c. 175)
Hipparchus of Nicaea (c. 180-c. 125)
Umaswati (c. 150)

It’s another slow century and it stays this bad for a couple hundred years.
In this time period, Mathematical advancement is still concentrated in the Mediterranean region

25 comments:

  1. The entire period of Dark Ages was a lame one for anything science-related.

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  2. with technology and ease of living and LOTS of people(TONS of free time and lacking physical stressors to damage brain functions with things like cortisol, etc.)

    I would say we have some prodigigal thinkers coming soon from all fields... once things get sorted out a bit.

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  3. Got to say that the lack of awesome names is becoming quite prevalent.

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  4. Yeah they dont make names like that these days.

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  5. Well people don't need to think much anymore sadly :/

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  6. wish i had a mathematician right now during tax time. guess the best i could do is h&r block or turbotax or something like that.

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  7. periods during which people lose interest in science always end badly

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  8. slowly but steady. they'll get there trust me. :P

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  9. The classical era was amazing, if only the middle ages didn't happen. We would be colonising space by now.

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  10. Yeah, the Dark Ages weren't really all that helpful.

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  11. Never heard of any of them lol

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  12. They should have hurried up and invented the calculator.

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  13. This sparks my interest. Go into a little more detail.

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  14. Well, probly the mathemathics are at a point where they don't really need to evolve that fast untill there are more specific needs.

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  15. wow... but i bet maths has moved far more than the society knows!

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  16. Its interesting to know that the romans held back the knowledge of maths muck like the christians with science

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  17. Imagine if they could see how we're advancing now in terms of technology back then.

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  18. Too short do want to know more, seriously

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  19. Do you c onsider modern software and computer engineering to be advances in mathematics?

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