41. The Olympic History Page The Games, like all Greek Games, were an intrinsic part of a religiousfestival held in honor of Zeus. hippias of elis, at ca. 400 http://www.inglewoodcarecentre.com/history/olympic.htm

E-mail This Page History Index Olympic History Page 2 Winter Olympic History ... Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 OLYMPIC HISTORY "And we compel men to exercise their bodies not only for the games, so that they can win the prizes-for very few of them go to them-but to gain a greater good from it for the whole city, and for the men themselves" Lucian, Anacharsis, ca. AD 170 In a fertile valley of Ancient Greece, at a place called Olympia, the first Olympic Games were held at 776 BC. This games were held every four years, for a thousand years. The Games, like all Greek Games, were an intrinsic part of a religious festival held in honor of Zeus. Hippias of Elis, at ca. 400 BC, compiled a list of Olympic victors, and according to him, the only event at the beginning was a stadium -length foot race (stade). The distance of the race came from the legend, that Hercules, the god of Physical Strength, run the same distance in one breath. It has been speculated, that the games at 776 BC were not the first games conducted, but rather the first organized games. It is believed, that this lead from the peace agreement between the city-states Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic Games back to their King Iphitos. King Iphitos was told by the Delphic Oracle to plant an Olive Tree from which the victor' wreaths for the Olympic Games was cut. Another legend says, that the Games were founded by Heracles, son of Alcmene. In Ancient Greece it was thought that the first Games held in Olympia was organized by heroes and gods.

42. Sydney Olympic Games History And Facts From Koala Express In Sydney Australia 20 The first record of the Olympic Games comes from hippias of elis in the fifth centuryBCE, though the first Olympic victory is dated to 776 BCE (this assumes http://www.koalaexpress.com.au/olympics.htm

The Greek athletic games, otherwise commonly recognized as the Panhellenic Games, were an integral part of Greek life. They combined religion, sport, and music into extravagant festivals involving peoples throughout Mediterranean. Not only did they attract thousands of participants and spectators to their venues, but they also promoted solidarity among the various Greek city-states. By the Classical period, their influence was felt throughout Greece. There were four main games: the Olympic Games, Pythian Games, Nemean Games, and Isthmian Games. The games at Olympia were the oldest and most famous of these. They all began quite humbly as religious ceremonies. While the games had a small religious aspect throughout their history, this role diminished as time progressed. Mythological evidence suggests that the athletic events originally served as entertainment for humans and gods and were loosely associated with sacrificial offerings. At first they were purely local events most likely spanning two or three days, consisting only of dancing, running, and wrestling. The centrepiece of every Olympics is the track and field stadium. Stadium Australia has built the largest Olympic arena in history with 110,000 spectators able to see the opening and closing ceremonies, track and field program and the final of the men's soccer tournament. Under an agreement brokered by the Olympic Co-ordination Authority, the majority of the cost of the $A615 million stadium is being borne by the private sector with the NSW public having ultimate ownership of the venue. Stadium Australia has already hosted several world-class events including top-flight rugby league and union, American NFL and the FIFA All Stars.

43. M. Luz Presocratics 10 hippias of elis (contemporary of Protagoras (c. 490420 BC) In the dialogue Protagoras,Plato briefly describes Hippias lecturing about nature, astronomy and http://research.haifa.ac.il/~mluz/Access/PhilLect10.html

Dr Menahem Luz, Presocratic Philosophers Summary 10 Sophists, Protagoras, Gorgias etc. next Summary 11 (Socrates) return to index of summaries Contents Sophists background ancient criticism modern reassessment sophist individuals sophist figures Protagoras of Abdera Gorgias of Leontini Hippias of Elis Prodicus of Ceos two surviving sophist documents Dissoi Logoi Anonymous Iamblichus return to top Sophists background The word 'sophist' (Greek: sophistes ) comes from the roots sophia (= wisedom) + the suffix istes (= expert in). See tadpis p. 25 no. 1) Its specific meaning refers to a group of wandering educators and teachers of wisdom and statesmanship who taught in various Greek cities during the 5th century BC. although they had some very general features in common, they ascribed to no central authority i.e. they formed a movement not a school. in general, the movement marks a renewed interest in society, ethics, teaching and the means of knowing , rather than the old Ionian examination of nature physis and the cosmological interests of previous thinkers this is not to deny that several of the Prescoratics questioned society and ethics (e.g., Xenophanes, Democritus) and on the other hand, some sophists like Protagoras and Prodicus examined questions like the origin of man and the nature of the earth.

44. The Last Of The Ancient Champions..... The list was compiled, circa 400 BC, by the sophist philosopher hippias of elis,probably based on the records of Olympia, oral tradition and memories of older http://www.ana.gr/olympics/English/pages/Historic/Zopiros.html

Olympic Bulletin History Olympic Venues Olympic Sports Greece Today ... Information The last of the ancient champions... Olympic Games 1896-2000 Greece's 91 medal winners 1906-intercalated games The Olympic Games in Mythology ... The Olympic Torches Written by Thanasis Antonopulos Archaeological finds shed light on the last Olympian of late antiquity In a year packed with symbolism and nostalgia in and around the Greek capital, it's again worth mentioning that Athens had the historic privilege of closing out the ancient Olympiads and inaugurating the modern Olympic Games. Two champions, in fact, Zopyros of ancient Athens and Spyros Louis, a native son of one of contemporary Athens' northern suburbs (Amaroussion or Athmoneus during antiquity) highlight two distinct milestones in the history of the Games, ancient and modern. The Athenian Zopyros, a ''grand victor of the pankration'' (a sports event in antiquity combining boxing and wrestling) in the Olympic Games of 385 AD, has apparently "wrestled away" the glory of Armenian prince Varazdat, or Artavasdes, as the ''last of the Olympic victors''. The latter triumphed at the 369 AD Games in the boxing event. Finds from the latest excavations in ancient Olympia, which for the past 120 years have been carried out by the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, extend the number of ancient Olympiads by another century - from 277 AD to 385 AD.

45. Hippias Online Encyclopedia Information Genius Online Encyclopedia hippias of elis, Greek sophist, was born about the middleof the 5th century BC and was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and http://www.informationgenius.com/encyclopedia/h/hi/hippias.html

46. MLLL5063Intro Sophists (Wise men) A term applied by Plato to various teachers of whom hedisapproved Protagoras, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, and hippias of elis. http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/MLLL5063Intro.html

A. Robert Lauer arlauer@ou.edu Introduction to MLLL 5063: Early Literary Criticism: Last revised on 12 December 2003 Click here to return to the homepage Index: Pre-Socratic Philosophers The Socratic and Post-Socratic (Platonic) Philosophers Plato Aristotle ... Pre-Socratic (Greek) Philosophers (from 6th c. BC): Physicalists Materialists (the world is made of matter: matter resolves into forces and energy). Opposed to mind/body dualism. All things are made of: earth, water Thales of Miletus, fl. 585 BC), air, or fire Heraclitus Atomism Demosthenes . Everything is made of tiny bits of indestructible and invisible matter bumping into each other and sticking together (atoms). Thales Milesians Miletus ) or Ionic School (6th C. BC): all rational explanations must start with the identification of the one primary substance, identified by Thales as water (Thales of Miletus, fl. 585 BC). Eleatics: what is real is single and motionless ( Parmenides of Elea, b. c. 515 BC). What is real is must be ungenerated, imperishable, indivisible, perfect, and motionless. It is called the ONE . This ONE contrasts with the relative and specious appearance of things, which arise through the opposition of two equally unreal forms: light and dark. Conflict bertween reason and experience (the latter illusory): (i.e., the changing perceptible world and the unchanging and eternal intelligible world):

47. Dividing One Angle Into Three Equal Angles Seems A Trivial Problem One of the earliest ways discovered was that of hippias of elis(circa 425BC). Hippias used a curve he had invented, called the quadratrix. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Trisection.page.html

Dividing one angle into three equal angles seems a trivial problem. That is probably why it irked the Greeks so. Instead of being a simple problem, it is a complex, non-planar problem, as the Greeks soon discovered. The trisection problem can probably credit its origin to the construction of regular polygons. The discover of the construction of a perfect pentagon(see The Golden Section One of the earliest ways discovered was that of Hippias of Elis(circa 425 BC). Hippias used a curve he had invented, called the quadratrix . With this curve, the problem of trisecting an angle could be reduced to the trisection of a line segment. The following picture is one construction of such segment trisect. The great benefit of this method was that it could be generalized to divide any angle into any number of parts. I don't really like this next solution, but maybe you will. This second method, perhaps the most well known of all, can be credited to Nicomedes(circa 180 BC). Nicomedes created a special device to use in his construction. As the upper part slide back and forth in its groove, the angle of the pointer changed so as to describe a curve known as a conchoid(as a function, y=K(x^2 + C)^(-1/2) is the simplest form).

48. Proclus Diadochus After him Mamercus the brother of the poet Stesichorus, is said to have embracedthe study of geometry, and in fact hippias of elis writes that he achieved http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/proclus.html

Early Geometry Proclus Diadochus, AD 410-485. (From his book: Commentary on Euclid's Elements I It was Thales, who, after a visit to Egypt, first brought this study to Greece. Not only did he make numerous discoveries himself, but laid the foundation for many other discoveries on the part of his successors, attacking some problems with greater generality and others more empirically. After him Mamercus the brother of the poet Stesichorus, is said to have embraced the study of geometry, and in fact Hippias of Elis writes that he achieved fame in that study. After these Pythagoras changed the study of geometry, giving it the form of a liberal discipline, seeking its first principles in ultimate ideas, and investigating its theorems abstractly and in a purely intellectual way. [He then mentions several who developed this abstract approach further: Anaxagoras, Hippocrates, Theodorus, etc.] Plato, who lived after Hippocrates and Theodorus, stimulated to a very high degree the study of mathematics and of geometry in particular because of his zealous interest in these subjects. For he filled his works with mathematical discussions, as is well known, and everywhere sought to awaken admiration for mathematics in students of philosophy. [He then lists several mathematicians, including Eudoxus and Theatetus, who discovered many new geometric theorems, and began to arrange them in logical sequences-this process culminated in the work of Euclid, called his

49. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.09.40 crucial problem addressed is that of the reliability of our information about Olympicvictors since the list of Olympionikai compiled by hippias of elis ca. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-09-40.html

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.09.40 Christian Mann, Reviewed by Thomas Heine Nielsen, The Copenhagen Polis Centre (heine@hum.ku.dk) Word count: 1885 words Greek athletics are an extremely fertile field of research, as is evidenced e.g. by a periodical such as Nikephoros and the steady flow of excellent studies such as the recent ones by Mark Golden ( Sport and Society in Ancient Greece , Cambridge 1998) and Hugh M. Lee ( The Program and Schedule of the Ancient Olympic Games , Hildesheim 2001), to mention just two examples. There has been, however, no major study of the relations between athletes and their home-poleis, and so Mann's full-scale study of precisely this subject is more than welcome. And let the conclusion be stated in advance: M.'s study is very successful and highly interesting. It will appeal to both historians and classicists. The book is subdivided into eight chapters: (two introductory chapters on methodology; five case studies; and a concluding chapter) it contains a very useful 13-page appendix on the epinician poems of Simonides (arguing that the preserved fragments stem from genuine epinicians and do not contain satirical elements), and concludes with a rich bibliography and a general index; there is, unfortunately, no index of sources. Chapter 1 is a short but readable survey of research, to situate M.'s study in the context of modern research. M. identifies three basic trends in modern research on Greek athletics: (i) the idealising romantic trend which provides the modern Olympic movement with some fundamental tenets of its self-perception; (ii) its antipode, the 'Entmythisierung' exemplified by the works of e.g. Pleket and Young; and (iii) the emphasis on the cultic context of athletics (here M. takes the opportunity to point out sensibly that the fact that all Greek athletics were embedded in cult does not mean that political, social, economic etc. investigations are bound to fail). All three of these trends, says M., suffer from failure to allow for the diversity of Greek athletics since they disregard, e.g., diachronical developments and regional variations.

50. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: The Metaphysical Period - Page 1 c. hippias of elis. Hippias taught science among other things and appears inPlato s Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, and Protagoras. d. Prodicus of Ceos. http://radicalacademy.com/adiphilmetaphysical.htm

Adventures in Philosophy ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Select a Category... Ancient Philosophy Medieval Philosophy Modern Philosophy Recent Philosophy American Philosophy Islamic Philosophy Jewish Philosophy Political Philosophy Academy Resources Glossary of Philosophical Terms Philosophy Search Engine Timeline of Philosophy A Timeline of American Philosophy ... Books about Religion in The Radical Academy Bookstore Shop Amazon Stores in the Radical Academy Bookstore Magazine Outlet Music Store Video Store ... Baby Superstore Select: The Sophists Socrates Minor Socratic Schools THE METAPHYSICAL PERIOD - 1 The second period of Greek philosophy occupies the entire fourth century before Christ. The problem which claims the interest of thinkers during this period is no longer the cosmological question, but man in his concreteness, namely, in his knowledge, his morality, his rights. The causes which determined the above passage were many, and the most important of these were the following:

51. The Quadratrix The curve already appears in ancient Greek geometry. It s named afterhippias of elis and was used by Dinostratus and Nicomedes. http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hs/quadratrix/quadratrix.html

THE QUADRATRIX Trisecting an angle - Squaring the circle Introduction Three famous geometrical construction problems, originating from ancient Greek mathematics occupied many mathematicians until modern times. These problems are the duplication of the cube: construct (the edge of) a cube whose volume is double the volume of a given cube, angle trisection: construct an angle that equals one third of a given angle, the squaring of a circle: given (the radius of) a circle, construct (the side of) a square whose area equals the area of the circle. In the ancient Greek tradition the only tools that are available for these constructions are a ruler and a compass . During the 19th century the French mathematician Pierre Wantzel proved that under these circumstances the first two of those constructions are impossible and for the squaring of the circle it lasted until 1882 before a proof had been given by Ferdinand von Lindemann If we extend the range of tools the problems can be solved. New tools can be material tools (ex. a "marked ruler", that's a ruler with two marks on it, a "double ruler", that's a ruler with two parallel sides,...), or

52. Search Tuna Report For Thales Five Theorems They commence with Mamercus, who was a pupil of Thales, and include hippias of elis,Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Philippus of Mende, Euclid, and http://www.searchtuna.com/ftlive/548.html

Thales Five Theorems Related Concepts the following phrases appear in multiple web resources: Archimedes' Euclidean Geometry Greek Mathematicians Hypatia ... Zeno The Best Web Sites the following web documents are rich in topic phrases, frequently cited, and not biased by paid advertisers Excellent THALES Thales was the first of the Greek natural philosophers and founder of the Ionian school of ancient Greek thinkers.... Aristotle called him therefore the founder of philosophy .... Thales was the first of the Greek natural philosophers and founder of the Ionian school of ancient Greek thinkers.... http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons1_n2/thales.html resource from: google teoma msnsearch Very Good Thales was interested in almost everything, investigating almost all areas of knowledge, philosophy, history, science, mathematics, engineering, geography, and politics.... They commence with Mamercus, who was a pupil of Thales, and include Hippias of Elis, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras , Eudoxus of Cnidus, Philippus of Mende, Euclid, and Eudemus, a friend of Aristotle, who wrote histories of arithmetic, of astronomy, and of geometry, and many lesser known names.... Such men were

53. Biblical Horizons : CH: Biblical Chronology Newsletter No. 6_02 use. Plutarch (c. AD 50120) says that hippias of elis, in the late5th century BC, drew up a list of victors of the races. But http://www.biblicalhorizons.com/ch/ch6_02.htm

Home Mission Statement Forums Search ... Product Catalogue Biblical Chronology Vol. 6, No. 2 February, 1994 Problems With Current Consensus Chronology by James B. Jordan Last month we began a survey and review of Centuries of Darkness by Peter James (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [1991] 1993). The thesis of this book is that the dark ages that supposedly happened all over the Mediterranean world between about 1100 and 800 B.C. never actually happened, and that these dark ages, as well as other problems of ancient history and archaeology, are really the results of "a gigantic academic blunder, perpetuated by the convenience of a seemingly reliable time-scale, as well as the sheer complexity of the issues involved" (p. 320). In the course of their discussions, James and his colleagues discuss some other problems with ancient world chronology. I want to begin this month with a survey of some of these. Carbon-14 Dating Creationists are accustomed to criticisms of Carbon-14 dating, but it is interesting to read such criticisms in a secular work. Carbon-14 is an unstable radioactive isotope and it constantly changes back into nitrogen by the emission of an electron. Half the Carbon-14 in a block of carbon will revert to nitrogen in about 5730 years. By measuring this, scientists can determine when the carbon was produced, supposedly. Since, however, this method is not very accurate, Carbon-14 dates are always quoted with a Standard Deviation, which represents the degree of accuracy.

54. 2004.com - Olympic History - Ancient History - Victory When hippias of elis started to write the history of the Games in the endthe 5th century BC there was only one event, a single foot race. http://www.2004.com/ohistory_ancient_victory.asp

55. History Of Philosophy 6 The chief Sophists are Protagoras of Abdera, the individualist; Gorgias of Leontini,the nihilist; hippias of elis, the polymathist; and Prodicus of Ceos, the http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop06.htm

Jacques Maritain Center History of Philosophy / by William Turner CHAPTER VI THE SOPHISTS Sophistic philosophy, which constitutes so important a crisis in the history of Greek thought and civilization, was germinally contained in the preceding systems. Atomistic materialism culminated in the Sophism of Protagoras; the doctrines of Heraclitus paved the way to Scepticism, as was demonstrated by Cratylus, the teacher of Plato; and Gorgias the Sophist merely carried to excess the dialectic method introduced by Zeno the Eleatic. All these schools Atomistic, Heraclitean, Eleatic had, as has been said, attacked by the aid of specious fallacies the trustworthiness of common consciousness, so that until Socrates appeared on the scene to determine the conditions of scientific knowledge no positive development of philosophy was possible. Meantime there was nothing left but to deny the possibility of attaining knowledge. And that is what the Sophists did: they are the first Sceptics of Greece. There was, then, an inevitable tendency on the part of the prevalent philosophy to culminate in Scepticism. Besides, the

56. History Of Astronomy: Roughly Sorted Links - Biographies (1) Heinrich (Rudolf) Hertzsprung, Ejnar Hesiod Hess, Victor Francis Hevelius, JohannesHewish, Antony Hill, George William Hipparchus hippias of elis HoggPriestly http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/unsorted/rough_bio_01.html

History of Astronomy Unsorted and roughly sorted links Roughly sorted links - Biographies (1) Please note that the links were found some time ago and may be outdated meanwhile. This list is not a permanent one. Any link may be moved or deleted without special announcement, and also this file may be deleted. Alexander Friedmann Jahrbuch fuer die Fortschritte der Mathematik Dirk Frimout (in German) Dirk Frimout (in French) ... ? Raleigh, Sir Walter navigation Ramsden, Jesse Reber, Grote Regiomontanus Reichenbach, Georg von ... Wolfgang R. Dick . Created: 20 Aug 2001. Latest update: 20 Feb 2002

57. Lists And Catalogues In Greek Paraliterary Papyri ordering. So it is not by accident that as a literary prose genreit first developed with the sophists (eg hippias of elis). As http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/lists&catalogues.htm

K.U.Leuven, Department of Classical Studies MARC HUYS LISTS AND CATALOGUES IN GREEK PARALITERARY PAPYRI Marc Huys Alberto Nodar Search the Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri (CPP) OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY OF THE PROJECT Problem description and State of the Art Lists and catalogues in higher literature, especially in poetry, have been thoroughly studied, but prose lists which do not belong to the great literary genres but rather to ancient scholarly and didactic tradition, have often been neglected. The research on prose lists as a separate literary genre seems not to have substantially advanced since the encyclopaedic article by Regenbogen ( ... (American Studies in Papyrology, 36), Atlanta 1996 , esp. p.42-43, 98-128. An attempt at administration was made by T. Morgan, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds , Cambridge 1998 , p.100-104. the remains of book catalogues in papyri: these fragments were collected and studied by R. Otranto, Antiche liste di libri su papiro , Roma 2000.

58. Zurück Translate this page Mai 2001, im Druck. hippias of elis and the Year 776 BC A Clarification,in Time and Temporality in the Ancient World, hg. von http://www.sag.uni-freiburg.de/ger/dozenten/amoeller.htm

Lebenslauf in Berlin geboren Promotion FU Berlin seit 1991 verheiratet Mitglied des kleinen Senats als Vertreterin des wiss. Dienstes Fellow am Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC Feodor-Lynen-Stipendiatin am Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche dell'Antichità, Università di Perugia WS 2002 Habilitation in Alter Geschichte Habilitationsschrift Genealogien, Listen, Synchronismen. Studien zur griechischen Chronographie Forschungsschwerpunkte griechische Wirtschaftsgeschichte; antike Historiographie; kulturelles Gedächtnis; Sparta; Geschichtstheorie; Tod und Jenseitsvorstellungen Publikationen Monographien Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece, Oxford University Press 2000 (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) Artikel und Beiträge (in Auswahl) mit N. Luraghi: Time in the Writing of History: Perceptions and Structures, Storia della Storiografia 28 (1995) 3-15 ktisis von Maroneia, Klio 78 (1996) 311-320 Naukratis, or How to Identify a 'Port of Trade', in: D. W. Tandy (Hg.), Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class and Political Economy, Montreal (Black Rose Books) 2001, 145-158 The Beginning of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai , in: N. Luraghi (Hg.), The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus, Oxford University Press 2001, 241-262

59. THE OLYMPIAD Later, in the early 4th century BC, the sophist hippias of elis numberedall Olympiads in relation to the first Olympiad, held in 776 BC. http://www.hotelsgreece.org/olympics/olympiad.htm

For information and Hotel or Cruise reservations call USA 800-736 5717 or 714 641 3118 GREECE: 011-30 210 93 70240 Fax: 011 30 210 93 74400 THE OLYMPIAD After the 5th century BC the games, which were held every four years, lasted five days. They were scheduled during the hottest months of the year. Throughout the centuries the games evolved, the number of athletic contests from the first to the last Olympiad increased and new contests were introduced. During the 5 days of the Olympic festival, the Greeks sacrificed to Zeus and other deities of the sanctuary. A number of athletic games took place. The festival ended with great religious and festive ceremonies. SCHEDULED Date and duration of the Olympiads The Olympic festival, like the other Panhellenic festivals, was held once every four years in accordance to the Greek eight-year calendar. The exact dates of the festival were calculated on the basis of the lunar 28-day month. The games were held at the first full moon after the summer solstice, coinciding with today's mid-July, approximately between the 11th-16th of the month. This was the hottest period of the year, and many athletes found the heat uncomfortable. The time spanning between two Olympic festivals was called an Olympiad. The term was also used to denote the days of the festival itself.

60. TR-00-20.html That is a subset of the curve known since antiquity as the Quadratrix of Hippias.The first curve ever named after its discoverer, hippias of elis (ca. http://www.mapleapps.com/categories/mathematics/algebra/html/TR-00-20.html

TR-00-20.mws Introduction History Lambert's Trinomial Equation (in Euler's format) ... Concluding Remarks Still more fun results on the Lambert W function Robert M. Corless and David J. Jeffrey Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Introduction This worksheet explores some recent results related to the function W(x), which satisfies restart; W(x)*exp(W(x)) = x; In fact, Maple knows this function rather well, and names it LambertW, following the paper ``On the Lambert W function'', by Corless, Gonnet, Hare, Jeffrey, and Knuth (Adv. Comp. Math. 1996); to save typing its real name all the time, we use alias( W = LambertW ); This means now that any instance of W that occurs in this worksheet will use the short notation W instead of the long notation LambertW. solve( y*exp(y) - z, y ); _EnvAllSolutions := true; solve( y*exp(y) - z, y ); The usual reaction to this answer is another question: what on earth is W(x)? In this worksheet we will see some parts of the answer, and some of the history and applications of this function. The goal of this exposition is that, at the end, you feel comfortable with W(x) and are happy with it as an answer. Of course, to get to that point you will have to do some work, but luckily it is all rather pleasant. History The history of the function goes back to J. H. Lambert (1728-1777). This worksheet is not the right medium to discuss the life of Lambert, but a short note is appropriate.

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