Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid

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).

Product details

• Authors: Thales
• Assisted by: I. Thomas (Translation), Ivor Thomas (Translation), Thomas Ivor (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1989
• EAN: 9780674993693
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99369-3
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 170 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Essays, SCIENCE / History, Mathematics, SCIENCE / Essays, MATHEMATICS / Essays, History of Science, Literary essays