Across
- 3. Wedge‑shaped Mesopotamian script
- 7. Offset centre in Apollonius’s solar model
- 9. Babylonian king behind a famous legal code
- 10. Syracusan who bounded π with a 96‑gon
- 11. Thinker who codified the syllogism
- 13. Russian city that gives its name to another math papyrus
- 15. “Father of algebra,” author of *Arithmetica*
- 16. Small circle whose center moves on a deferent
- 18. Philosopher whose theorem relates the sides of a right triangle
- 20. Perfect solid Greeks ascribed to the heavens
- 21. Geometer who wrote *Conics*
- 23. Iranian cliff inscription that cracked cuneiform
- 27. Name for the base‑60 numeral system
- 29. Stone whose trilingual text unlocked hieroglyphics
- 30. Branch of math born to parameterize celestial models
- 32. Amphibian hieroglyph meaning 100 000
- 33. First Greek credited with measuring a pyramid’s height via similar triangles
- 34. Collective name for circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola
- 35. Mathematician who devised the method of exhaustion
- 36. Writing material of ancient scrolls
- 38. Author of *The Elements*
Down
- 1. Government‑funded research institution of the Ptolemies
- 2. Mediterranean city that hosted history’s most famous library
- 4. Number equal to the sum of its proper divisors, e.g., 28
- 5. Conic whose standard Cartesian equation is y = x²
- 6. Kind of integer triple like (3, 4, 5)
- 7. Thirteen‑book treatise beginning with definitions and axioms
- 8. Librarian who calculated Earth’s circumference using shadows
- 12. Ancient “guess‑and‑adjust” equation method
- 14. Digit absent from that system
- 17. Monument whose volume puzzled Egyptian scribes
- 19. Philosopher famous for paradoxes of motion
- 22. Athenian who proved there are exactly five regular solids
- 24. Ornate pictorial Egyptian script
- 25. Mesopotamian city ruled by Hammurapi
- 26. Surname of the philanthropist whose tablet 322 lists triples
- 28. Celebrated woman scholar of Alexandria
- 31. Scottish antiquarian linked to an Egyptian math papyrus
- 36. Euclid proved there are infinitely many of these
- 37. Archimedes’ treatise revealing his discovery techniques