Mathematics in Ancient Greece (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Dantzig, Tobias

ISBN 10: 0486453472 / ISBN 13: 9780486453477

Published by Dover Publications, 2006

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Synopsis:

A study of the problems, principles, and procedures that mathematics has inherited from antiquity, this book both instructs and delights. Written by a specialist in interpreting science for lay readers, it recounts the human story behind mathematics, focusing on the insights of such thinkers as Euclid and Hippocrates. 1955 edition.

About the Author: Tobias Dantzig was born in Latvia, studied under the great mathematician Henri Poincar in Paris, and immigrated to the United States in 1910. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia . University, and the University of Maryland. He died in 1956.
Joseph Mazur is a professor of mathematics at Marlboro College, and is the author of Euclid in the Rainforest.
Barry Mazur is the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, and is the author of "Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen),"

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mathematics in Ancient Greece (Dover Books ...
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good