Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late AntiquityCambridge University Press, 21 de juny 2007 - 248 pàgines This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also an examination of the work's wider cultural setting. This is one of very few books to deal extensively with the mathematics of Late Antiquity. It sees Pappus's text as part of a wider context and relates it to other contemporary cultural practices and opens new avenues to research into the public understanding of mathematics and mathematical disciplines in antiquity. |
Continguts
The outside world | 9 |
Mathematics in the workshop | 16 |
Mathematics and the | 30 |
Mathematics and the educated person | 46 |
Conclusion | 53 |
Comparisons | 59 |
Creations | 76 |
Conclusion | 89 |
46 | 143 |
59 | 149 |
76 | 155 |
104 | 167 |
The ghost of mathematicians past | 194 |
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