Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics

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Jean Christianidis
Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 18, 2013 - Mathematics - 474 pages
The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme. Indeed, it is by no means exaggerated to say that Greek mathematics represents the unique field from the wider domain of the general history of science which was included in the research agenda of so many and so distinguished scholars, from so varied scientific communities (historians of science, historians of philosophy, mathematicians, philologists, philosophers of science, archeologists etc. ), while new scholarship of the highest quality continues to be produced. This volume includes 19 classic papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the entire 20th century and affected significantly the state of the art of this field. It is divided into six self-contained sections, each one with its own editor, who had the responsibility for the selection of the papers that are republished in the section, and who wrote the introduction of the section. It constitutes a kind of a Reader book which is today, one century after the first publications of Tannery, Zeuthen, Heath and the other outstanding figures of the end of the 19th and the beg- ning of 20th century, rather timely in many respects.
 

Contents

JÜRGEN MITTELSTRASS Die Entdeckung der Möglichkeit
19
von Wissenchaft
107
G E R LLOYD The Meno and the Mysteries of Mathematics
169
1992 166183
183
KEN SAITO Introduction 187
185
KURT VON FRITZ The Discovery of Incommensurability
211
Annals of Mathematics 46 1954 242264 211
232
Bulletin de la Société mathématique de Belgique 18 1966 4355 233
243
HEATH Diophantus methods of solution
285
JEAN CHRISTIANIDIS Introduction
331
Historia Mathematica 9 1982 133171
337
DAVID H FOWLER Logistic and fractions in early
366
METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY
381
VANDER WAERDEN Defence of a Shocking Point of View
432
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 15 1976 199210 433
440
ANDRÉ WEIL Who Betrayed Euclid? Extract from a letter
447

JACQUES SESIANO Introduction
257
KURT VOGEL Zur Berechnung der quadratischen
264

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