Egyptian Geometry Research Paper

The Egyptians are know for their many contributions and feats in advancing the technology of their time. Irrigation, medicine, science, astronomy, and mathematics are just some of the contributions they made. They were one of the most advanced people of their era. One of the most noticed feats that the Egyptians accomplished were the pyramids.

The pyramids were the tombs of the Egyptians kings, queens and their households. They were constructed under the command of the King while he reigned over Egypt. The geometry of these wonders were well advanced, as shown in the ancient Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri.

The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus dates to the twelfth dynasty of Egypt. Seven of the Twenty-five problems in the papyrus are geometry problems. The problems range from finding the surface of a hemisphere, computing areas of triangles, to find the volume of a frustum (or truncated pyramid). This papyrus alone tells us that the Egyptians were well adept in using math and geometry. It clearly shows us how they were able to build such structures like the pyramids.

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the longer and younger of the two, dating back to the fifteenth dynasty of Egypt. It contains a collection of twenty-one arithmetic and twenty algebraic problems, along with many geometrical problems. The six

Phi (1.618), also known as The Golden Ratio, is found by dividing a line into two segments so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. It is the only number that's square is one more than itself. Pi (3.14) is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The Pythagorean Theorem states that A squared plus B squared equals C squared. Pyramids based on Phi and the Pythagorean Theorem vary by only 0.025% while pyramids based on Pi vary by only