Serafina Cuomo

Ancient Mathematics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The discoveries and insights of ancient mathematics continue to amaze and fascinate the modern reader. This volume offers the first accessible survey of the discipline in all its variety and diversity of practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780415164948
• ISBN-10: 041516494X
• Artikelnr.: 21556167

Autorenporträt

Serafina Cuomo

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations. Map. Introduction. 1. Early Greek Mathematics: The Evidence
1.1. Materila Evidence 1.2 .Historians, Playwrights and Lawyers 1.3. Plato
1.4. Aristotle 2. Early Greek Mathematics; The Questions 2.1. The Problem
of Political Mathematics 3. Hellenistic Mathematics: The Evidence 3.1.
Material Evidence 3.2. Non-Mathematical Authors - The Rest of the World
3.3. Non-Mathematical Authors - The Philosophers 3.4. Little People 3.5.
Euclid 3.6. Archimedes 3.7. Apollonius 4. Hellenistic Mathematics: The
Questions 4.1. The Problem of the Real Euclid 4.2. The Problem of the Birth
of a Mathematical Community 5. Graeco-Roman Mathematics: The Evidence 5.1.
Material Evidence 5.2 Vitruvius 5.3. Hero 5.4. The Other Romans 5.5. The
Other Greeks 6. Graeco-Roman Mathematics: The Questions 6.1. The Problem of
Greek vs. Roman Mathematics 6.2. The Problem of Pure vs. Applied
Mathematics 7. Late Ancient Mathematics: The Evidence 7.1. Material
Evidence 7.2. Diophantus 7.3. Pappus 7.4. Eutocius 7.5. The Philosophers
7.6. The Rest of the World 8. Late Ancient Mathematics: The Questions 8.1.
The Problem of Divine Mathematics 8.2. The Problem of Ancient Histories of
Ancient Mathematics Glossary. Bibliography.

Rezensionen

'Nicely written, expertly researched.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Ancient Mathematics provides a rich and diverse picture of mathematics in ancient Greece and Rome. With C. history of mathematics sheds its ahistoricity and gets its hands dirty.' - Journal of Roman Studies

'This book is engagingly written; and it is a pleasure to entrust oneself to Cuomo's choices.' - Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science