A Short History of Greek Mathematics
Author: James Gow
Publisher:
Published: 1884
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13:
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Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
Author: Jacob Klein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0486319814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImportant study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
Amazing Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics
Author: Jran Friberg
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9812704523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sequel to Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific, 2005), this book is based on the author's intensive and ground breaking studies of the long history of Mesopotamian mathematics, from the late 4th to the late 1st millennium BC. It is argued in the book that several of the most famous Greek mathematicians appear to have been familiar with various aspects of Babylonian “metric algebra,” a convenient name for an elaborate combination of geometry, metrology, and quadratic equations that is known from both Babylonian and pre-Babylonian mathematical clay tablets. The book's use of “metric algebra diagrams” in the Babylonian style, where the side lengths and areas of geometric figures are explicitly indicated, instead of wholly abstract “lettered diagrams” in the Greek style, is essential for an improved understanding of many interesting propositions and constructions in Greek mathematical works. The author's comparisons with Babylonian mathematics also lead to new answers to some important open questions in the history of Greek mathematics.
A New History of Greek Mathematics
Author: Reviel Netz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-09-01
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1108991912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Greeks played a fundamental role in the history of mathematics and their ideas were reused and developed in subsequent periods all the way down to the scientific revolution and beyond. In this, the first complete history for a century. Reviel Netz offers a panoramic view of the rise and influence of Greek mathematics and its significance in world history. He explores the Near Eastern antecedents and the social and intellectual developments underlying the subject's beginnings in Greece in the fifth century BCE. He leads the reader through the proofs and arguments of key figures like Archytas, Euclid and Archimedes, and considers the totality of the Greek mathematical achievement which also includes, in addition to pure mathematics, such applied fields as optics, music, mechanics and, above all, astronomy. This is the story not only of a major historical development, but of some of the finest mathematics ever created.
Euclid's Elements
Author: Euclid
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
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A Quick History of Maths
Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher: Quick Histories
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0711249016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Quick History of Maths is 43,000 years of mathematical discoveries packed into one book, plus lots of jokes.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics
Author: James Gow
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
Author: Reviel Netz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-18
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521541206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the deductive method; and as a case-study for a general view on the history of science. The starting point for the enquiry is geometry and the lettered diagram. Reviel Netz exploits the mathematicians' practices in the construction and lettering of their diagrams, and the continuing interaction between text and diagram in their proofs, to illuminate the underlying cognitive processes. A close examination of the mathematical use of language follows, especially mathematicians' use of repeated formulae. Two crucial chapters set out to show how mathematical proofs are structured and explain why Greek mathematical practice manages to be so satisfactory. A final chapter looks into the broader historical setting of Greek mathematical practice.
A Brief History of Numbers
Author: Leo Corry
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0191007072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of number from the early days of the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the twentieth century. He presents an overview of how numbers were handled and conceived in classical Greek mathematics, in the mathematics of Islam, in European mathematics of the middle ages and the Renaissance, during the scientific revolution, all the way through to the mathematics of the 18th to the early 20th century. Focusing on both foundational debates and practical use numbers, and showing how the story of numbers is intimately linked to that of the idea of equation, this book provides a valuable insight to numbers for undergraduate students, teachers, engineers, professional mathematicians, and anyone with an interest in the history of mathematics.
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
Author: Walter William Rouse Ball
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13:
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