Selections illustrating the history of Greekmathematics
By: with an English translation by Ivor Thomas.
Contributors: Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor, 1905-
Series: The Loeb classical library -- 335, 362; Loeb classical library -- 335, etc.
Publisher: W. Heinemann; Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; Cambridge
Language: eng; gre
Subjects: Mathematics, Greek.
Other titles: Greek mathematical works.
Description: GREEK MATHEMATICAL WORKS. The wonderful achievement of Greek mathematics is illustrated in two volumes. 1. 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; algabraic equations; Proclus; Thales; Pythagorean geometry; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; duplicating the cube and squaring the circle; trisecting angles; Theaetetus; Plato; Exodus of Cnidus (pyramid; cone, etc.); Aristotle (the infinite; the lever); Euclid. 2. 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 Ptolmy's table of sines); mensuration - Heron of Alexandria; algebra - Diophantus (determinate and indeterminate equations); the revival of geometry - Pappus.
Notes: Greek and English on oppositepages.

On spine: Greek mathematical works.

Includes index.

"List of ancient texts cited": v. 2, p. 650-654.
Table of contents: title: I. From Thales to Euclid; title: II. From Aristarchus to Pappus.