A Short History of Greek Mathematics (Dover Phoenix Editions) - Hardcover

Gow, James

9780486495897: A Short History of Greek Mathematics (Dover Phoenix Editions)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0486495892 ISBN 13: 9780486495897

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2004

Mathematicians will find accounts of every extant Greek mathematical book and many proofs translated directly from ancient texts. Students and Greek scholars will encounter a chronicle of the development of mathematical science, including the decimal scale; Egyptian and Greek arithmetic; the Greek theory of numbers; Greek geometry; Egyptian geometry; and the works of Euclid, Archimedes, and their successors.

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James Gow's A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884) offers a complete overview of the history of Greek mathematics from the origins of the numeric system to the sophisticated proofs of Pythagorus, Euclid, Archimedes and many others. Direct translations from source texts make this an indispensable guide to the subject.

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