From Aristarchus to Pappus

Author(s)

• Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor

Bibliographic Information

From Aristarchus to Pappus

（The Loeb classical library, 362 . Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics / with an English translation by Ivor Thomas ; 2）

W. Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1941

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• : uk

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The wonderful achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (Loeb Classical Library no. 335) 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 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: BA01018446
• ISBN:
  • 0674993993
  • 043499362X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: enggrc
• Original Language Code: grc
• Place of Publication: London,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 682, 8 p.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 089.1
  • NDC8 : 410.2
• Subject Headings:
  • NDLSH : 数学 -- 歴史
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115