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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Greek mathematical works.".
- catalog contributor b1602234.
- catalog contributor b1602235.
- catalog created "1939-41.".
- catalog date "1939".
- catalog date "1939-41.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1939-41.".
- catalog description ""List of ancient texts cited": v. 2, p. 650-654.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "I. From Thales to Euclid.--II. From Aristarchus to Pappus.".
- catalog extent "2 v. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics.".
- catalog isPartOf "Loeb classical library".
- catalog issued "1939".
- catalog issued "1939-41.".
- catalog language "eng gre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press; London : W. Heinemann, ltd.,".
- catalog relation "Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics.".
- catalog subject "510.938".
- catalog subject "Mathematics, Greek.".
- catalog subject "PA3611 .A95 1939".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. From Thales to Euclid.--II. From Aristarchus to Pappus.".
- catalog title "Greek mathematical works.".
- catalog title "Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics / with an English translation by Ivor Thomas.".
- catalog type "text".