Greek Mathematical Works: Volume II, From Aristarchus to Pappus. (Loeb Classical Librar...
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Greek Mathematical Works: Volume II, From Aristarchus to Pappus. (Loeb Classical Library No. 362)
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Classics
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- Used
- ISBN-13
- 9780674993990
- ISBN-10
- 0674993993
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ISBN: 0674993993
Author: Thomas, Ivor
Condition: Used
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 Ptolemys table of sines); mensuration: Heron of Alexandria (mensuration); Diophantus (algebra, determinate and indeterminate equations); Pappus (the revival of geometry).
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Greek Mathematical Works: Volume II, From Aristarchus to Pappus. (Loeb Classical Library No. 362)
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