Classics of mathematics

by Calinger, Ronald

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Full title :Classics of mathematics / edited by Ronald Calinger.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Prentice Hall
Place of Publication:Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1995.

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Description:xxi, 793 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:002318342X, 9780023183423
oclc:ocm30667383
LC Classification:QA21
Dewey Decimal:510

From A Mathematician's Apology / G.H. Hardy -- From "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought" / Alfred North Whitehead -- 1. From The Exact Sciences in Antiquity / O. Neugebauer -- 2. From the Ah-mose or Rhind Papyrus / James R. Newman -- 3. Problem No. 14 of the Moscow Papyrus / Battiscombe Gunn and T. Eric Peet -- 4. The Ancient Hebrews and Protomathematics Based on the Old Testament of the Bible -- 5. From "The Catalogue of Geometers" / Proclus -- 6. From On Marvels 6 / Apollonius Paradoxagraphus -- 7. From Book VII of the Elements: Definitions / Euclid -- 8. From Prior Analytics i.23 (Irrationality of the Square Root of 2) / Aristotle -- 9. From On Nicomachus's Introduction to Arithmetic (Arithmetic, Geometric, and Harmonic Means) / Iamblichus -- 10. From Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics / Porphyry -- 11. From Metaphysics A5 / Aristotle -- 12. From Commentary on Euclid i (Sum of the Angles of a Triangle) / Proclus -- 13. From Convivial Questions viii. 2. (Pythagora's Theorem) / Plutarch -- 14. From On Slips in Greetings / Lucian -- 15. From Elements X. Scholium (The Irrational or Incommensurable) / Euclid -- 16. From Elements X. Definitions (Commensurable and Inco…