Classics in the history of Greek mathematics

Bibliographic Information

Classics in the history of Greek mathematics

edited by Jean Christianidis

(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 240)

Kluwer Academic, c2004

  • : HB

Available at  / 20 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN for e-book: ISBN:1402026404

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme. Indeed, it is by no means exaggerated to say that Greek mathematics represents the unique field from the wider domain of the general history of science which was included in the research agenda of so many and so distinguished scholars, from so varied scientific communities (historians of science, historians of philosophy, mathematicians, philologists, philosophers of science, archeologists etc. ), while new scholarship of the highest quality continues to be produced. This volume includes 19 classic papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the entire 20th century and affected significantly the state of the art of this field. It is divided into six self-contained sections, each one with its own editor, who had the responsibility for the selection of the papers that are republished in the section, and who wrote the introduction of the section. It constitutes a kind of a Reader book which is today, one century after the first publications of Tannery, Zeuthen, Heath and the other outstanding figures of the end of the 19th and the beg- ning of 20th century, rather timely in many respects.

Table of Contents

The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics Studies on Greek Geometry Studies on proportion theory and incommensurability Studies on Greek Algebra Did the Greeeks have the notion of common fraction? Did they use it? Methodological Issues in the Historiography of Greek Mathematics

by "Nielsen BookData"

Related Books: 1-1 of 1

Details

  • NCID
    BA6907798X
  • ISBN
    • 1402000812
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht ; Boston
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 461 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Subject Headings
  • Parent Bibliography ID
Page Top