From Thales to Euclid

Author(s)

• Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor

Bibliographic Information

From Thales to Euclid

（The Loeb classical library, 335 . Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics / with an English translation by Ivor Thomas ; 1）

W. Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1939

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• : uk

Note

Greek text and English translation on opposite pages

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA01017614
• ISBN:
  • 0674993691
  • 0434993352
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: enggrc
• Original Language Code: grc
• Place of Publication: London,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 505, 8 p.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 089.1
  • NDC8 : 410.2
• Subject Headings:
  • NDLSH : 数学 -- 歴史
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115