Interesting facts about geometry Is a great opportunity to learn more about the exact sciences. Ancient scientists managed to derive many fundamental formulas that we still use today.
So, here are the most interesting facts about geometry.
- Geometry, as a systematic science, originated in ancient Greece.
- One of the most prominent scientists in the field of geometry is Euclid. The laws and principles discovered by him still underlie this science.
- More than 5 millennia ago, the ancient Egyptians used geometric knowledge in the construction of the pyramids, as well as during the marking of land plots on the shores of the Nile (see interesting facts about the Nile).
- Did you know that above the door to the academy in which Plato taught his followers, there was the following inscription: “Let not he who does not know geometry enter here”?
- Trapezium - one of the geometric shapes, comes from the ancient Greek "trapezium", which literally translates as - "table".
- Among all geometric shapes with the same perimeter, the circle has the largest area.
- Using geometric formulas and not excluding the fact that our planet is a sphere, the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes calculated the length of its circumference. An interesting fact is that modern measurements have shown that the Greek performed all the calculations correctly, allowing only a small error.
- In Lobachevsky's geometry, the sum of all the angles of a triangle is less than 180⁰.
- Mathematicians today are aware of other varieties of non-Euclidean geometries. They are not practiced in everyday life, but they help to solve a lot of questions in other exact sciences.
- The ancient Greek word “cone” is translated as “pine cone”.
- The foundations of fractal geometry were laid by the genius Leonardo da Vinci (see interesting facts about Leonardo da Vinci).
- After Pythagoras deduced his theorem, he and his students experienced such a shock that they decided that the world had already been known and all that remained was to explain it with numbers.
- Chief among all his achievements, Archimedes considered the calculation of the volumes of a cone and a sphere inscribed in a cylinder. The volume of the cone is 1/3 of the volume of the cylinder, while the volume of the ball is 2/3.
- In Riemannian geometry, the sum of the angles of a triangle always exceeds 180⁰.
- An interesting fact is that Euclid independently proved 465 geometric theorems.
- It turns out that Napoleon Bonaparte was a talented mathematician who wrote many scientific works over the years of his life. It is curious that one of the geometric problems is named after him.
- In geometry, a formula to help measure the volume of a truncated pyramid appeared earlier than the formula for an entire pyramid.
- Asteroid 376 is named after geometry.
