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J.L. Heilbron
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Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, England. Author of Geometry Civilized and The Sun in the Church among others.

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mathematicians of the Greco-Roman world
Geometry, the branch of mathematics concerned with the shape of individual objects, spatial relationships among various objects, and the properties of surrounding space. It is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, having arisen in response to such practical problems as those found in…
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