Mathematicians active before roughly the fall of the Western Roman Empire, working within Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Indian or Chinese mathematical traditions that predate the medieval transmission and commentary tradition. Belongs here: figures such as Euclid or Pythagoras. Does not belong here: mathematicians of the medieval Islamic Golden Age, filed under Medieval even where their work built directly on ancient Greek sources.
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1. Ancient History (Wikipedia)
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Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BC - AD 500.
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