J.L. Heilbron | Britannica

J.L. Heilbron

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BIOGRAPHY

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

Primary Contributions (11)

Articles

Map of the Greco-Roman world highlighting the birthplaces of notable ancient mathematicians, marked with the pi symbol and labeled with their names. Cities such as Athens, Alexandria, Syracuse, and Miletus are shown around the Mediterranean, with modern country boundaries outlined. An inset provides detail for the region of Greece and western Anatolia.

geometry

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…

Platonic solid

Bridge of Asses

Euclid’s Windmill

Quadrature of the Lune

Measuring the Earth, Classical and Arabic

Measuring the Earth, Modernized

Teaching the Elements

Incommensurables

Trisecting the Angle: The Quadratrix of Hippias

Trisecting the Angle: Archimedes’ Method