Sentence examples for theory of proportion from inspiring English sources

The French architect Le Corbusier developed a theory of proportion called Modulor, also based on a study of human proportions.

In Eṣfahān he also produced fundamental critiques of Euclid's theory of parallels as well as his theory of proportion.

Book VI applies the theory of proportion from Book V to similar figures and presents the geometrical solution to quadratic equations.

It appears that the technique of similar figures was already known in the 5th century bc, even though a fully valid justification could not have been given before Eudoxus worked out his theory of proportion.

Finally, he may be the author of a general theory of proportion that was formulated after the numerically based theory of the Pythagoreans (fl. 5th century bc) yet before that of Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 400 350 bc) as described in Book V of the Elements.

The discovery of universal proofs is usually associated with Eudoxus' theory of proportion.

Archytas also applied the theory of proportions to musical harmony.

The method of exhaustion, also due to Eudoxus, was a generalization of the theory of proportions.

The theory of proportions was created by Eudoxus about 350 bc and preserved in Book V of Euclid's Elements.

The theory of proportions was the first rigorous treatment of the concept of limits, an idea that is at the core of modern analysis.

So they reasoned about infinity as finitely as possible, in a logical framework called the theory of proportions and using the method of exhaustion.