Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid Hardback
Part of the Loeb Classical Library series
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Elemental learning. The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works.
Volume I (LCL 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; the 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 (LCL 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 (mensuration); Diophantus (algebra, determinate and indeterminate equations); Pappus (the revival of geometry).
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- Pages:576 pages, mathematical examples
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1939
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- ISBN:9780674993693
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:576 pages, mathematical examples
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1939
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674993693
