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41. Earliest Known Uses Of Some Of The Words Of Mathematics (N)
NUMBER THEORY. According to Diogenes Laertius, xenocrates of chalcedon(396 BC 314 BC) wrote a book titled The theory of numbers.
http://mail.mcjh.kl.edu.tw/~chenkwn/mathword/n.html
¦­´Á¼Æ¾Ç¦r·Jªº¾ú¥v (N)
Last revision: Aug. 3, 1999 NABLA (as a name for the "del" or Hamiltonian operator). The following is taken from A History of Vector Analysis by Michael J. Crowe: Nabla was the name suggested to [Peter Guthrie] Tait by Robertson Smith because of the similarity of the symbol to an Assyrian harp. See [1; 143]. Maxwell used the word only once in his published writings, and that was in a poem, "To the Chief Musician upon Nabla, A Tyndallic Ode." The "Chief Musician upon Nabla" was Tait. The poem was published in Nature and is given in [1; 171174]. This citation is from note 27 to chapter four of "A history of vector analysis" by Michael J. Crowe (originally published by University of Notre Dame Press in 1967, and republished by Dover in 1985). The note is on page 146 of the Dover edition. Reference [1] above is Cargil Gilston Knott, "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait", Cambridge, England, 1911. (This information is from Michele Benzi.) The term nabla was used by both Heaviside and Hamilton (Cajori vol. 2, page 135; Kline, page 780). According to Schwartzman (p. 142) Hamilton introduced this term.

42. Glossary Of Meditations, By Marcus Aurelius
Vespasian, 9th Roman Emperor xenocrates of chalcedon, 396314 BC, a philosopher,and president of the Academy. Email this page! Sponsored Links.
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SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK ... GLOSSARY Related Resources Meditations - Contents Marcus Aurelius Links Ancient History Glossary Books to Buy This Glossary includes all proper names (excepting a few which are insignificant or unknown) and all obsolete or obscure words. ADRIANUS, or Hadrian (76-138 A. D.), i4th Roman Emperor. Agrippa, M. Vipsanius (63-12 B.C.), a distinguished soldier under Augustus. Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, and Conqueror of the East, 356-323 B.C.

43. Famous Anatomists (Ancient)
visited Syracuse. Speusippus, Plato's nephew, was also teaching at theAcademy, as was xenocrates of chalcedon. Following his studies
http://www.anatomist.co.uk/FamousAnatomists/famousanatomists1b.htm
Hippocrates (Hypokrates, c BC ). Information about Hippocrates' life is scanty. His younger contemporary Plato referred to him only twice. In the Protagoras he called Hippocrates the ' Asclepiad (i.e. member of a family of physicians) of Cos' who taught students for fees and implied that he was as well known a physician as Polyclitus and Phidias were sculptors. In the Phaedrus Plato again refers to Hippocrates as a famous Asclepiad who had a philosophical approach to medicine. In his Politics Aristotle says that although Hippocrates was called 'the Great Physician' he was in fact small in stature, and his pupil Meno specifically stated in his history of medicine the views of Hippocrates on the causation of diseases - namely that undigested residues were produced by an unsuitable diet and that these residues excreted vapours which passed into the body and produced diseases. These are the only extant contemporary, or near-contemporary, references to Hippocrates. Five hundred years later, the Greek physician Soranus wrote a biography, but the contents of this and later lives were largely hagiographic or imaginative. Throughout his life Hippocrates appears to have travelled widely in Greece and Asia Minor practicing his art and teaching his pupils, and he presumably taught at the medical school at Cos. His birth and death dates are traditional but may well be approximately accurate.

44. Mathem_abbrev
xenocrates of chalcedon Yates Frank Yau, ShingTung Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe Yunus,Abu'l-Hasan ibn Yushkevich, Adolph, Zariski, Oscar Zassenhaus, Hans Zeeman
http://www.pbcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/domnitcj/mgf1107/mathrep1.htm
Mathematician Report Index Below is a list of mathematicians. You may choose from this list or report on a mathematician not listed here. In either case, you must discuss with me the mathematician you have chosen prior to starting your report. No two students may write a report on the same mathematician. I would advise you to go to the library before choosing your topic as there might not be much information on the mathematician you have chosen. Also, you should determine the topic early in the term so that you can "lock-in" your report topic!! The report must include: 1. The name of the mathematician. 2. The years the mathematician was alive. 3. A biography. 4. The mathematician's major contribution(s) to mathematics and an explanation of the importance. 5. A historical perspective during the time the mathematician was alive.
Some suggestions on the historical perspective might be:
(a) Any wars etc.
(b) Scientific breakthroughs of the time
(c) Major discoveries of the time
(d) How did this mathematician change history etc.

45. Roman Stoicism (Chapter 3: The Academy And The Porch)
Thus xenocrates of chalcedon (396314 BC) taught that each man’s happiness resultedfrom the virtue proper to him; whilst Polemo of Athens (head of the
http://www.geocities.com/stoicvoice/journal/0203/ea0203b1.htm
Roman Stoicism
(Chapter 3: The Academy and the Porch) by E. Vernon Arnold (1857 - 1926) realist is . But just as Plato holds that general conceptions are alone true and real, so he necessarily maintains that objects perceivable by the senses are only half-real, and that the ordinary man lives in a world of illusions. Thus the thoughts of the philosopher are separated by an abyss from the world in which men live and die. The ideal State is modeled on the individual man. To the three parts of the soul correspond three classes of citizens; the rulers, whose virtue is Wisdom; the guardians, on whom Courage is incumbent; the laborers and tradesmen, who owe the State Soberness and obedience. Thus the political system to which Plato leans is that of an Aristocracy; for the middle class in his state has only an executive part in the government, and the lower orders are entirely excluded from it. Aristotle thus reinstates the credit of the common man; he it is who possesses the substance of truth and gives it habitual expression by speech, even roughly indicating the various kinds of existence by different forms of words. It is now indicated that a study of grammar is required as the foundation of logic. In the study of physics Aristotle picks up the thread which Socrates had dropped deliberately, that is, the teaching of the Ionic philosophers. Either directly from Empedocles, or from a

46. Quotes Page
Unknown. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. . ~Unknown. Ihave often regretted my speech, never my silence. . ~xenocrates of chalcedon.
http://gunderson.sjusd.k12.ca.us/Student pages/1999/Robert Hogue/Quotespage.html

47. Type_Document_Title_here
that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy I have often repented speaking,but never of holding my tongue. xenocrates of chalcedon Laugh at your
http://www.unc.edu/~jzgodwin/quotes/advice.html
"By the time the average person finishes college he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes and exams. The 'right answer' approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems, where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn't that way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers - all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one."
Roger von Oech
"Perfectionism is a slow death. If everything were to just like I would want it to, just like I would plan for it to, then I would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected."
Hugh Prather
"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."
The Mahabharata.
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

48. Second Apology Of Justin
xenocrates of chalcedon indicates that the planets are seven gods,and that the universe composed of all these, is an eighth. Nor
http://www.catholicfirst.com/thefaith/churchfathers/volume01/justinmartyr02.htm
THE SECOND APOLOGY OF JUSTIN
FOR THE CHRISTIANS
ADDRESSED TO THE ROMAN SENATE CHAP. I.INTRODUCTION. CHAP. II.URBICUS CONDEMNS THE CHRISTIANS TO DEATH. "But he, striking the lyre, began to sing beautifully."(1) Sing to us, Homer, that beautiful song "About the amours of Ares and Venus with the beautiful crown: How first they slept together in the palace of Hephaestus Secretly; and he gave many gifts, and dishonoured the bed and chamber of king Hephaestus." "Who shall refuse to look on any temples And altars, worthless seats of dumb stones, And idols of stone, and images made by hands, Stained with the life's-blood, and with sacrifices Of quadrupeds, and bipeds, and fowls, and butcheries of wild beasts."(3) For we are expressly prohibited from exercising a deceptive art: "For thou shalt not make," says the prophet, "the likeness of anything which is in heaven above or in the earth beneath."(4) CHAP. V.THE OPINIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS RESPECTING GOD.

49. Publications Page
of Alexandria; Oenopides of Chios; Pappus of Alexandria; Ptolemy; Thales of Miletus;Theon of Alexandria; xenocrates of chalcedon; Zenodorous; Anaximenes of
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50. Favourite Quotes
tongue. xenocrates of chalcedon Experience is a hard teacher becauseshe gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Vernon
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Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
Tears for Fears
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. Rodan of Alexandria Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. Richard Armour A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. Edgar A. Shoaff If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Einstein Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

51. NET4YOU Virtual Library -Meditations By Marcus Aurelius
and died 169 AD. Vespasian, 9th Roman Emperor xenocrates of chalcedon,396314 BC, a philosopher, and president of the Academy. Top.
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GLOSSARY. This Glossary includes all proper names (excepting a few which are insignificant or unknown) and all obsolete or obscure words. ADRIANUS, or Hadrian (76-138 A. D.), i4th Roman Emperor. Agrippa, M. Vipsanius (63-12 B.C.), a distinguished soldier under Augustus. Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, and Conqueror of the East, 356-323 B.C. Antisthenes of Athens, founder of the sect of Cynic philosophers, and an opponent of Plato, 5th century B.C Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman Emperor, 138-161 AD. one of the best princes that ever mounted a throne. Apathia: the Stoic ideal was calmness in all circumstance an insensibility to pain, and absence of all exaltation at, pleasure or good fortune. Apelles, a famous painter of antiquity. Apollonius of Alexandria, called Dyscolus, or the 'ill-tempered,'
a great grammarian. Aposteme, tumour, excrescence. Archimedes of Syracuse 287-212 B.C., the most famous mathematician of antiquity. Athos, a mountain promontory at the N. of the Aegean Sea. Augustus, first Roman Emperor (ruled 31 B.C.-14 AD.). Avoid

52. Quotes Page 2
holding my tongue. xenocrates of chalcedon He is truly wise who gainswisdom from another's mishap. Only the good die young. That is
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar A. Shoaff
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils. "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." Luciano de Crescenzo The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." Isaac Asimov One kind word can warm three winter months.

53. Cicero: Summary Of Dr Republica And Translation Of Somnium Scipionis
Notes. 1. xenocrates of chalcedon, student of Plato and head of the Academy338 to 314 BC. 2. Ennius (239169 BC), Latin poet and dramatist.
http://duke.usask.ca/~niallm/233/Cicero.htm
CICERO Cicero on the Via Cicerone, Rome Somnium Scipionis Bibliography Resources for Cicero de re publica Participants in Dialogue Fannius , C., Consul in 122 B.C., follower of stoicism, historian and orator Laelius , C., Close friend and associate of Scipio, consul in 140, promoter of the study of literature and philosophy. Manilius , M'., Consul in149. Historian and legal scholar Mucius Scaevola, Q., Legal scholar and patron of the young Cicero Mummius , Sp., Satirist and extreme defender of optimate interests. Philus , L.. Furius , Consul 136 B.C., orator Rutilius Rufus, P., Politician admired for his honesty, dedicated to Stoicism. Scipio Africanus Minor, P. Cornelius, 195-129 B.C. Outstanding military and political leader 149-129, captured and destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C., restored order after assassination of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 B.C. and mediated between the political factions. Died suddenly and mysteriously in 129. Tubero , Q. Aelius, Scipio's nephew, tribune c. 129 B.C, legal scholar dedicated to Stoicism. Book I 1-3. The

54. 2ApologyJustin.html
xenocrates of chalcedon indicates that the planets are seven gods,and that the universe. 191 composed of all these, is an eighth.
http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/LCC.GB/LCIS/Scriptures/Fathers/Apol
THE SECOND APOLOGY OF JUSTIN
FOR THE CHRISTIANS
ADDRESSED TO THE ROMAN SENATE
CHAP. I.INTRODUCTION.
CHAP. II.URBICUS CONDEMNS THE CHRISTIANS
TO DEATH.
the Divine has become a drama; and what is sacred you have acted in comedies under the masks of demons, travestying true religion by your demon-worship[superstition].
"But he, striking the lyre, began to sing beautifully."(1)
Sing to us, Homer, that beautiful song
"About the amours of Ares and Venus with the beauti-
ful crown: How first they slept together in the palace of Hephaes- tus Secretly; and he gave many gifts, and dishonoured the bed and chamber of king Hephaestus." at home, as if, forsooth, they were the images of your gods, depicting on them equally the postures of Philaenis and the labours of Heracles. Not only the use of these, but the sight of them, and the very hearing of them, we denounce as deserving the doom of oblivion. Your ears are debauched, your eyes commit fornication, your looks commit adultery before you embrace. O ye that have done violence to man, and have devoted to shame what is divine in this handiwork of God, you disbelieve everything that you may indulge your passions, and that ye may believe in idols, because you have a craving after their licentiousness, but disbelieve God, because you cannot bear a life of self-restraint. You have hated what was better, and valued what was worse, having been spectators indeed of virtue, but actors of vice. Happy, therefore, so to say, alone are all those with one accord

55. Classics-L: List
449. xenocrates of chalcedon head of the Platonic Academy after suicideof Speusippus, Plato's nephew (c. 339314 BC) 300 words. 450.
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56. áíáæÞôçóç âéâëéïãñáößáò2
xenocrates of chalcedon. xenocrates of chalcedon. xenocrates of chalcedon.xenocrates of chalcedon. xenocrates of chalcedon. xenocrates of chalcedon.
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57. Áëëåò ÅðéóôÞìåò óôçí Áñ÷áßá ÅëëÜäá
Ptolemy. Pythagoras of Samos. Socrates. Thales of Miletus. Theon of Alexandria.Thucydides. xenocrates of chalcedon. Xenophanes of Colophon. Xenophon. Zeno ofElea.
http://www.oncology.gr/1/1500ab.htm
Other Sciences in Ancient Greece An ancient Greek Computer Ancient Greek Astronomy Ancient Greek Mathematics Ancient Greek Mathematics ... Zeno of Elea

58. XYZ Index
Names beginning with X, Y or Z. The number of words in the biography is given inbrackets. A * indicates that there is a portrait. xenocrates of chalcedon (636),
http://www.math.hcmuns.edu.vn/~algebra/history/history/Indexes/XYZ.html

59. XENOCRATES
xenocrates, of chalcedon, Greek philosopher, scholarch or rector of the Academy from 339 to 314 B
http://49.1911encyclopedia.org/X/XE/XENOCRATES.htm
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XENOCRATES
XENOCRATES, of Chalcedon, Greek philosopher, scholarch or rector of the Academy from 339 to 314 B.C., was born in 396. Removing to Athens in early youth, he became the pupil of the Socratic Aeschines, but presently joined himself to Plato, whom he attended to Sicily in 361. Upon his master's death (~4~ n.e.), in compan.y with Aristotle he paid a visit to Hermias at Atarneus. In 339, Aristotle being then in Macedonia, Xenocrates succeeded Speusippus in the presidency of the school, defeating his competitors Menedemus and Heracleides by a few votes. On three occasions he was member of an Athenian legation, once to Philip, twice to Antipater. Soon after the death of Demosthenes jfl 322, resenting the Macedoriian influence then dominant at Athens, Xen.ocrates declined the citizenship offered to him at the instance of Phocion, and, being unable to pay the tax levied upon resident aliens, was, it is said, sold, or on the point of being sold, into slavery. He died in 314, and was succeeded as scholarch by Polemon, whom he had reclaimed from a life of profligacy. Besides Polemon, the statesman Phocion, Chaeron, tyrant of Pellene, the Academic Crantor, the Stoic Zeno and Epicurus are alleged to have frequented his lectures. Xenocrates’s earnestness and strength of character won for him universal respect, and stories were remembered in proof of his purity, integrity and benevolence. Wanting in quickness of apprehension and in native grace, he made up for these deficiencies by a conscientious love of truth and an untiring industry. Less original than Speusippus, he adhered more closely to the letter of Platonic doctrine, and is accounted the typical representative of the Old Academy. In his writings, which were numerous, he seems to have covered nearly the whole of the Academic programme; but metaphysics and ethics were the subjects which principally engaged his thoughts. He is said to have invented, or at least to have emphasized, the tripartition of philosophy under the heads of physic, dialectic and ethic.

60. Mathematiker Mit Xx
xenocrates von chalcedon (396 v.Chr. 314 v.Chr., chalcedon) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z zurück
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