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Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
A study of the work of a fourth-century AD mathematician and its cultural setting.
Serafina Cuomo (Author)
9780521036894, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 21 June 2007
248 pages
21.6 x 14.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.336 kg
'\u2026 Cuomo does an admirable job in hopefully tempting more students and scholars from different fields to tackle these themes and, even more importantly, to cooperate and cross the lines between disciplines.' De novis libris iudicia
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. An important first chapter looks at the mathematicians of the period and how mathematics was perceived by people at large. The central chapters of the book analyse sections of the Collection]
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity Cuomo Paperback
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
A study of the work of a fourth-century AD mathematician and its cultural setting.
Serafina Cuomo (Author)
9780521036894, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 21 June 2007
248 pages
21.6 x 14.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.336 kg
'\u2026 Cuomo does an admirable job in hopefully tempting more students and scholars from different fields to tackle these themes and, even more importantly, to cooperate and cross the lines between disciplines.' De novis libris iudicia
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. An important first chapter looks at the mathematicians of the period and how mathematics was perceived by people at large. The central chapters of the book analyse sections of the Collection]
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