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  1. Ibn Al-Haytham's Completion of the Conics (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) (Indo-European and English Edition) by J.P. Hogendijk, 1984-12-13
  2. Euclid: The Great Geometer (The Library of Greek Philosophers) by Chris Hayhurst, 2006-02-03
  3. Mathematics and Its History (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) by John Stillwell, 2010-08-02
  4. Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Serafina Cuomo, 2007-06-21
  5. Specious Science: Why Experiments on Animals Harm Humans by C. Ray Greek, Jean Swingle Greek D.V.M., 2003-10-28
  6. History of Geometry: History of geometry. Egyptian mathematics, Babylonian mathematics, Indian mathematics, Chinese mathematics, Greek mathematics, Mathematics ... in medieval Islam, List of geometry topics
  7. Almagest: Latin, Arabic language, English language, Mathematics, Astronomy, Star, Planet, Greek language, Ptolemy, Geocentric model, Islamic Golden Age, ... Middle Ages, Renaissance, Greek astronomy
  8. Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture by Lewis Wolpert, 2002-11-28
  9. Maths and the Greeks (Maths & History) by John Davies, 2002-06-28
  10. Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII : The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa (Sources in the History of Mat)volume I (Books V to VII Vol 1)
  11. A Manual of Greek Mathematics by Thomas L. Heath, 1931
  12. Greek mathematics by Thomas Little Heath, 1963
  13. The Story of Maths: History of Mathematics, Open University, BBC Four, Clay Mathematics Institute, Egyptian Mathematics, Mathematics in Medieval Islam, Greek Mathematics
  14. A Short History Of Greek Mathematics (1884) by James Gow, 2010-09-10

41. Survival And Influence Of Greek Mathematics (from Mathematics, History Of) -- 
Survival and influence of greek mathematics (from mathematics, history of) Notable in the closing phase of greek mathematics were Pappus (early 4th century
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42. A History Of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1
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44. 10.8. Euclid (330?-275? B.C.)
This 13 volume work is a compilation of greek mathematics and geometry. It is unknown how much if any This format helped standardize greek mathematics.
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10.8. Euclid (330?-275? B.C.)
IRA Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematician of all time. His prize work, Elements , was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians. Very little is known about the life of Euclid. Both the dates and places of his birth and death are unknown. It is believed that he was educated at Plato's academy in Athens and stayed there until he was invited by Ptolemy I to teach at his newly founded university in Alexandria. There, Euclid founded the school of mathematics and remained there for the rest of his life. As a teacher, he was probably one of the mentors to Archimedes Personally, all accounts of Euclid describe him as a kind, fair, patient man who quickly helped and praised the works of others. However, this did not stop him from engaging in sarcasm. One story relates that one of his students complained that he had no use for any of the mathematics he was learning. Euclid quickly called to his slave to give the boy a coin because "he must make gain out of what he learns." Another story relates that Ptolemy asked the mathematician if there was some easier way to learn geometry than by learning all the theorems. Euclid replied, "There is no royal road to geometry" and sent the king to study. Euclid's fame comes from his writings, especially his masterpiece

45. Read This: The Shaping Of Deduction In Greek Mathematics
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Reviel Netz has written an stimulating book about diagrams and mathematics, telling us facts that we all know, but hardly ever thought of. Thus he sets himself in the best of company, for isn't that what Euclid did from the very first proposition in the Elements? "The diagram is the metonym of mathematics" is RN's main claim. To understand what he means by that, think of two typical situations in the circus of conferences: if a philosopher or historian gives a talk, he will read aloud for half an hour, facing his audience without moving from his chair. If a mathematician gives a talk, he will dance around the platform talking to the blackboard while writing figures and letters on it, most of the time ignoring his audience and concentrating on his written deductions as they emerge out of sheer necessity. Years ago David Fowler (of Plato's Academy ) coined a motto: "Greek mathematics is to draw a figure and tell a story about it." RN has widened and deepened this into "Deductive mathematics grew out of the Greeks drawing lettered diagrams and telling stories by means of them, not only about them." The diagram and the argument live in such a close symbiosis that one cannot be understood without the other. The diagram is the metonym of mathematics.

46. Read This: The Mathematics Of Plato's Academy
The focus here is on early greek mathematics, and particularly the mathematics On later greek mathematics, Fowler basically only comments on what is
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Most mathematicians who know anything about the history of their subject know the standard story about Greek mathematics. David Fowler describes that story like this: The early Pythagoreans based their mathematics on commensurable magnitudes (or on rational numbers, or on common fractions m/n), but their discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability (or the irrationality of the square root of 2) showed that this was inadequate. This provoked problems in the foundation of mathematics that were not resolved before the discovery of the proportion theory that we find in Book V of Euclid's Elements (p. 356). As he points out, we have all heard, and some of us have told, that story. It may be somewhat surprising, then, to discover that many, if not most, historians of ancient mathematics disbelieve some or all of this story. In The Mathematics of Plato's Academy , David Fowler gives a convincing account of the reasons for rejecting the standard story, and offers a very interesting alternative reconstruction of the history of early Greek mathematics.

47. C. 4th Greek Mathematics
Reading. BL van der Waerden, Science Awakening, 165190. R. Netz, The Shaping of Deduction in greek mathematics, 272-311. On to Day 18.
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Day 17: 4th century Greek mathematics
Summary
Development of mathematics in the 4th century up to Alexander.
Who developed mathematics?
How many mathematicians were there?
Where did they live?
How did they communicate?
What topics interested them?
We will pay particular attention to Theaetetus and Eudoxus.
In the readings, look especially at the ideas of ratio and proportion.
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Up to Ancient and Classical Mathematics Last modified: 27 October 2003 Duncan J. Melville Comments to dmelville@stlawu.edu

48. Exam 2: Greek And Hellenistic Mathematics
Discuss the role of computation in greek mathematics. Discuss the concept of incommensurability in greek mathematics. Proof critiques.
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This second exam will cover the material since the first exam. That is, Greek and Hellenistic mathematics. Some of the topics you should be familiar with are:
  • geography of the Mediterranean littoral: Miletus, Samos, Athens, Alexandria, Syracuse, Pergamum; dates at which various centers flourished: Plato's Academy, Alexandria; location, date, sources and significance of the contributions of: Plato, Eudoxus, Theaetetus, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius; Greek numerical systems; 'fractions'; Greek arithmetic and the abacus; arithmetical tables; Pythagorean number theory; incommensurability: side and diagonal arguments; classification of 'irrationals'; numbers and magnitudes; ratio and proportion; axiomatic presentation of mathematics; Platonic mathematical philosophy: the nature of forms; the Platonic curriculum: use and purpose of mathematics; actual usage and purpose of mathematics in the classical world; Netz's analysis of classical mathematics and mathematicians; sources and transmission in the classical world: how mathematicians learned and corresponded;

49. Mathematics In Greek Art :: Term Papers, Essays - Free Summary Of Research Paper
A discussion on the reflections of greek mathematics in ancient Greek art.
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    greek mathematics by Maria Fragoulopoulou. •, Useful Weblinks on History of Mathematical Sciences by Man Mohan. More Articles
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    52. The Golden Age Of Greek Mathematics
    THE GOLDEN AGE OF greek mathematics. The Death of Alexander the Grat led to internal strife but by 306BC control of the Egyptian portion of the empire was
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    THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREEK MATHEMATICS
    The Death of Alexander the Grat led to internal strife but by 306BC control of the Egyptian portion of the empire was in the hands of Ptolemy 1. He established a school at Alexandria and Euclid became a teacher there. 5 works of Euclid have survived ' Elements ', 'Data', 'Division of Figures', Phaenomena' and 'Optics'. Euclid was a good teacher - no new discovery is attributed to him, he just wrote 'Elements' as a textbook. University students were being presented with a textbook ('Elements') which gave them the fundamentals of elementary mathematics (geometry and algebra). 'Elements' is divided into 13 books of which the first half dozen were at elementary plane geometry next 3 on numbers, book X on incommensurables and the last 3 on solid geometry.
    Euclid's 'Elements' - Book 1
    The book opens with a list of 23 definitions. Definitions do not really define because they use words which are no better known than the word being defined.
    eg. The Euclidean definition of a plane angle as "the inclination to one another of 2 lines in a plane which meet one another and do not lie in a straight line" is not very good because inclination has not being previously defined and is not better known than the word "angle". Following the definitions Euclid listed 5 postulates and 5 common notions (axioms).

    53. Powell's Books - Ideas In Context #51: The Shaping Of Deduction In Greek Mathema
    of the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical greek mathematics Ideas in Context 51 The Shaping of Deduction in greek mathematics Cover
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    54. Powell's Books - History Of Greek Mathematics Volume 1 From T By Thomas L Heath
    Volume 1 of an authoritative coverage of essentials of mathematics, every important innovation, every important figureEuclid, Apollonius, others.
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    55. ¥±. The Greek Mathematics : Demonstrative Geometry
    However, greek mathematics was remarkable theoretically, but unremarkable in The first three centuries of greek mathematics, commencing with the initial
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    ¥±. The Greek Mathematics : Demonstrative Geometry ¢º Characteristic of Greek Mathematics ¢º Pythagorean Mathematics ¢º The Three Famous Problems ¢º Greek Mathematics After Euclid ¡ßCharacteristic of Greek Mathematics In the 600 B.C. Mathematics was focused as a study and a science in the ancient Greek as a matter of course in China, India and Babylonia and to learn Geometry in Egypt.
    Thales, Pythagoras and Plato in Greek studied in Egypt and joined with Egypt culture Greek produced achivements at mathematics formed a term of now civilization accepting the Egypt culture.
    That is "Elements" of Euclid, "The Theory of conic sections " of Apollonius, "Arithmetica" of Diophantus and many reserch achivements of Archimedes. Many scholar represented as Aristotle. Plato focused only philosophy and mathematics.
    The story, Plato wrote "NO one knows Geometry, No admission" at the enterance to a hall, is famous.
    Euclid is known affected by Aristotle and plato. His "Elements" is the first arranged and systematized book logically and had been used as a textbook toward the end of the 1800's in Europe.

    56. Greek Mathematics
    An introduction to the history and development of geometry throughout the centuries.
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    History of Geometry Contents Early Geometry Greek Mathematics Later Developments Analytic Geometry Geometry Main Page Greek Mathematics
    pre-Euclidean period
    The Greeks not only made significant advancements in geometry, but also changed the way mathematicians think. They preferred abstract concepts. Thales introduced the use of logical proof on deductive reasoning, whilst Euclid used his own ideas of axioms or postulates, assumptions accepted without justification. Other famous Greek mathematicians include Archimedes and Apollonius. Thales Miletus, who learnt geometry from the Egyptians, discovered many geometric properties. They include, that the angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle, the diameter of a circle is a bisector of the circle, base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal, vertically opposite angles are equal, as well as properties of similar and congruent triangles. It is possible, but not established, that he is Pythagoras' teacher. Pythagoras, who has the famous theorem named after him, was another early Greek mathematician. He founded a school, with aims political, philisophical and religious, almost like a cult. Pupils studied arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. Musical octaves and notes were established by Pythagoras. The theory of numbers, as well as the construction of Pythagorean triples, were explored.

    57. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Is Greek Mathematics The *real* T
    greek mathematics was not so much to do with axiomatization (their own work In this sense, greek mathematics represents enormous progress. By this I do
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    [HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing?
    Moshe' Machover moshe.machover@kcl.ac.uk
    Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:55:50 GMT
    At 2:37 pm -0600 5/11/98, Janet D. Sisson wrote:
    [snip]
    It seems to me that the great and unique contribution of classical Greek
    mathematics is not specifically the axiomatic method but, more generally,
    the idea of proof. To return to the starting point of this discussionmy
    guess is that the affinity that Hardy and Littlewood felt with classical
    Greek mathematics was not so much to do with axiomatization (their own work
    was certainly quite remote from this!) but with the more general notions of
    proof and rigour.
    Of course, the idea that mathematical propositions can and *should* be established by conclusive argument, by proof, mayif taken to its ultimate conclusionlead to axiomatization. But the achievements of classical Greek

    58. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Is Greek Mathematics The *real* T
    Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians
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    [HM] Is Greek mathematics the *real* thing?
    Julio Gonzalez Cabillon jgc@chasque.apc.org
    Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:08:15 -0200
    Dear Colleagues,
    On July 1, 1998, Sherman Stein asked:
    "Does anyone know who said something like "I would welcome
    Archimedes as a colleague?" I would like to know the exact
    reference. Perhaps it was G. H. Hardy."
    Antreas P. Hatzipolakis replied:
    "It was J. E. Littlewood"
    and provided the following reference:
    "The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still 'real'
    to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand; as Littlewood said to me once, they are not clever schoolboys

    59. Wonders Of Greek Mathematics
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    60. Classics In The History Of Greek Mathematics-Springer Philosophy (general) Book
    This volume includes a selection of 19 classic papers on the history of greek mathematics that were published during the 20th century and affected
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