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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Book Title
- A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780486240749
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486240746
ISBN-13
9780486240749
eBay Product ID (ePID)
357246
Product Key Features
Educational Level
High School, Elementary School
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
History of Greek Mathematics : from Aristarchus to Diophantus
Subject
History & Philosophy
Publication Year
1981
Type
Study Guide
Subject Area
Mathematics
Series
Dover Books on Mathematics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Elementary/High School
LCCN
80-070126
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
19
Series Volume Number
2
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
510/.938
Edition Description
Reprint,New Edition
Synopsis
"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival." -- Times Literary Supplement "Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English historian of the ancient exact sciences in the twentieth century." -- Prof. W. H. Stahl "Indeed, seeing that so much of Greek is mathematics, it is arguable that, if one would understand the Greek genius fully, it would be a good plan to begin with their geometry." The perspective that enabled Sir Thomas Heath to understand the Greek genius -- deep intimacy with languages, literatures, philosophy, and all the sciences -- brought him perhaps closer to his beloved subjects, and to their own ideal of educated men than is common or even possible today. Heath read the original texts with a critical, scrupulous eye and brought to this definitive two-volume history the insights of a mathematician communicated with the clarity of classically taught English. "Of all the manifestations of the Greek genius none is more impressive and even awe-inspiring than that which is revealed by the history of Greek mathematics." Heath records that history with the scholarly comprehension and comprehensiveness that marks this work as obviously classic now as when it first appeared in 1921. The linkage and unity of mathematics and philosophy suggest the outline for the entire history. Heath covers in sequence Greek numerical notation, Pythagorean arithmetic, Thales and Pythagorean geometry, Zeno, Plato, Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes, Apollonius, Hipparchus and trigonometry, Ptolemy, Heron, Pappus, Diophantus of Alexandria and the algebra. Interspersed are sections devoted to the history and analysis of famous problems: squaring the circle, angle trisection, duplication of the cube, and an appendix on Archimedes's proof of the subtangent property of a spiral. The coverage is everywhere thorough and judicious; but Heath is not content with plain exposition: It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises of Archimedes and Apollonius, they make little attempt to describe the procedure by which the results are obtained. I have therefore taken pains, in the most significant cases, to show the course of the argument in sufficient detail to enable a competent mathematician to grasp the method used and to apply it, if he will, to other similar investigations. Mathematicians, then, will rejoice to find Heath back in print and accessible after many years. Historians of Greek culture and science can renew acquaintance with a standard reference; readers in general will find, particularly in the energetic discourses on Euclid and Archimedes, exactly what Heath means by impressive and awe-inspiring., Volume 2 of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and features every landmark innovation and every important figure, including Euclid, Apollonius, and others.
LC Classification Number
QA22.H4 19
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