Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: Aristarchus to Pappus (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674993993 ISBN 13: 9780674993990

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1968

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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); 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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Ivor Thomas (1905-1993; later surnamed Bulmer-Thomas) was a journalist, scholar, and Member of Parliament.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1968
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674993993
• ISBN 13: 9780674993990
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 693
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