Greek Mathematical Works
The wonderful achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works.Volume I (Loeb Classical Library no. 335) contains: The divisions of mathematics;…
Specifikacia Greek Mathematical Works
The wonderful achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works.Volume I (Loeb Classical Library no. 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; 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, etc.); Aristotle (the infinite, the lever); Euclid.Volume II contains: Aristarchus (distances of sun and moon); Archimedes (cylinder, sphere, cubic equations; conoids; spheroids; spiral; expression of large numbers; mechanics; hydrostatics); Eratosthenes