Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

 
9780674993693: Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid (Loeb Classical Library)
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ISBN 10: 0674993691 ISBN 13: 9780674993693
Verlag: LOEB, 1939

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

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Verlag
LOEB
Erscheinungsdatum
1939
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674993691
ISBN 13 
9780674993693
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