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Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid

Thomas, Ivor

Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid

The wonderful achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I contains: The divisions of mathematics, mathematics in Greek education, calculation, arithmetical notation and operations, including square root and cube root, Pythagorean arithmetic, including properties of numbers, square root of 2, proportion and means, algebraic equations, Proclus, Thales, Pythagorean geometry, Democritus, Hippocrates of Chios, duplicating the cube and squaring the circle, trisecting angles, Theaetetus, Plato, Eudoxus of Cnidus (pyramid, cone, etc.), Aristotle (the infinite, the lever), Euclid. Volume II ("Loeb Classical Library no. 362") contains: Aristarchus (distances of sun and moon), Archimedes (cylinder, sphere, cubic equations, conoids, spheroids, spiral, expression of large numbers, mechanics, hydrostatics), Eratosthenes (measurement of the earth), Apollonius (conic sections and other works), later development of geometry, trigonometry (including Ptolemy's table of sines), mensuration: Heron of Alexandria, algebra: Diophantus (determinate and indeterminate equations), the revival of geometry: Pappus.

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ISBN 9780674993693
Sprache eng
Cover Fester Einband
Verlag Harvard University Press
Jahr 19390101

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