Greek Mathematical Works, Volume II: Aristarchus to Pappus

Ivor Thomas (Traduttore)

Harvard University Press, 1941

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).

• Traduttore: Ivor Thomas
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Collana: Loeb Classical Library
• Anno: 1941
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 704 p.
• Dimensioni: 162 x 108 mm
• Peso: 417 gr.
• EAN: 9780674993990

Testo in English