Selections Illustrating The History Of Greek Mathematics V1

Author : Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282625801
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Ivor Bulmer-Thomas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1 of 2: From Thales to Euclid In a strictly logical arrangement the passages would, no doubt, be grouped wholly by subjects or by persons. But such an arrangement would not be satisfactory. I imagine that the average reader would like to see, for example, all the passages on the squaring of the circle together, but would also like to see the varied discoveries of Archimedes in a Single section. The arrangement here adopted is a compromise for which I must ask the reader's indulgence where he might himself have made a different grouping. The contributions of the Greeks to arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, mensuration and algebra are noticed as fully as possible, but astronomy and music, though included by the Greeks under the name mathematics, have had to be almost wholly excluded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.