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Rabbi Nehemiah was an Israelite mathematician, circa AD 150 (during the Tannaim era, Fourth Generation).
He is attributed as the author of the Mishnat ha-Middot (ca. AD 150), making it the earliest known Hebrew text on geometry, although some historians assign the text to a later period by an unknown author.
The Mishnat ha-Middot argues against the common belief that the Bible defines the geometric ratio π (pi) as being exactly equal to 3, based on the description in 1 Kings 7:23 (and 2 Chronicles 4:2) of the great bowl situated outside the Temple of Jerusalem as having a diameter of 10 cubits and a circumference of 30 cubits. He maintained that the diameter of the bowl was measured from the outside brim, while the circumference was measured along the inner brim, which with a brim that is one handbreadth wide (as described in the subsequent verses 1 Kings 7:24 and 2 Chronicles 4:3) yields a ratio from the circular rim closer to the actual value of π.[1]
See also
- History of numerical approximations of π
References
^ Petr Beckmann, A History of Pi, St. Martin's (1971).
Tannaim
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Last Generation of Zugot Era
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- Hillel the Elder
- Shammai
- Bnei Bathyra
- Menahem
- Akabia ben Mahalalel
- Hananiah b. Hezekiah b. Garon
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First Generation |
- Gamaliel I, the Elder
- Shimon ben Gamliel (I)
- Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen
- Johanan ben Zakai
- Jonathan ben Uzziel
- Baba ben Buta
- Hanina Ben Dosa
- Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim
- Abba Saul ben Batnit
- Admon
- Dosa ben Harkinas
- Judah ben Bathyra
- Eliezer ben Jacob I
- Nahum the Mede
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Second Generation |
- Gamaliel II
- Joshua ben Hananiah
- Eliezer ben Hurcanus
- Eleazar ben Arach
- Nehunya ben HaKanah
- Nachum Ish Gamzu
- Abba Hilkiah
- Rabbi Zadok
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Third Generation |
- Rabbi Akiva
- Rabbi Tarfon
- Judah ben Bava
- Rabbi Ishmael
- Eleazar ben Azariah
- Jose the Galilean
- Eliezer ben Jose
- Haninah ben Teradion
- Johanan ben Baroka
- Simon ben Zoma
- Simeon ben Azzai
- Onkelos
- Hanina ben Antigonus
- Hanina ben Hakinai
- Yochanan ben Nuri
- Eleazar Chisma
- Elisha ben Abuyah
- Rabbi Ilai I
- Eleazar of Modi'im
- Halafta
- Haninah ben Ahi R. Joshua
- Abtolemus
- Jose ben Kisma
- Jeshbab the Scribe
- Aquila of Sinope
- Johanan ben Torta
- Eleazar ben Judah of Bartota
- Matteya ben Heresh
- Hanan the Egyptian
- Simeon the Yemenite
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Fourth Generation |
- Shimon ben Gamaliel (II)
- Judah bar Ilai
- Jose ben Halafta
- Rabbi Jonathan
Rabbi Meir (and wife Bruriah)
- Simeon bar Yochai
- Eleazar ben Shammua
- Rabbi Nehemiah
- Rabbi Nathan
- Joshua ben Karha
- Abba Saul
- Yochanan HaSandlar
- Phinehas ben Jair
- Simeon Shezuri
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Fifth Generation |
- Judah I
- Huna Kamma
- Jose b. Judah
- Ishmael ben Jose
- Eleazar b. Simeon
- Simeon ben Eleazar
- Eleazar ha-Kappar
- Symmachus ben Joseph
- Issi ben Judah
- Bar Kappara
- Jose ben Zimra
- Levi ben Sisi
- Rabbi Bana'ah
- Simeon b. Menasya
- Yadua the Babylonian
- Joshua ben Levi
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