Greek mathematical works /
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Imprint: | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
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Description: | 1 online resource : mathematical examples |
Language: | English Ancient Greek |
Series: | Loeb Classical Library ; 335, 362 Loeb Classical Library ; 335, 362. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10301310 |
Other authors / contributors: | Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor, 1905-1993, translator. |
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ISBN: | 9780674993693 9780674993990 |
Notes: | Includes indexes. Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages. Description based on print version record. |
Summary: | Greek mathematics from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE is represented by the work of, e.g., Pythagoras; Proclus; Thales; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; Theaetetus; Plato; Eudoxus of Cnidus; Aristotle; Euclid; Eratosthenes; Apollonius; Ptolemy; Heron of Alexandria; Diophantus; Pappus. 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. |
Other form: | Print version: Greek mathematical works. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1939 9780674993693(v.1) 9780674993990(v.2) |
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