Ancient mathematicians made many assumptions about perfect numbers based on the four they knew.

None of these ancient mathematicians, however, explicitly stated the inductive hypothesis.

Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician celebrated for his work in geometry.

Ancient Greek mathematicians were among the earliest to make a distinction between pure and applied mathematics.

The neusis is a geometric construction method that was used by ancient Greek mathematicians.

Ancient Greek mathematicians first studied what we now call the golden ratio because of its frequent appearance in geometry.

Ancient Chinese mathematicians did not develop an axiomatic approach, but made advances in algorithm development and algebra.

Eagerness lifted, though it was largely intellectual, maybe not unlike the feelings of an ancient mathematician as a theorem came together for him.

Ancient Greek mathematicians knew how to compute area via infinitesimals, an operation that we would now call integration.

Ancient mathematicians wanted the solutions in the form of radical expressions, like for the positive solution of .