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A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume I: From Thales to Euclid
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Author/Editor: Sir Thomas Heath
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"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival." — Times Literary Supplement. Volume I of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and includes every landmark innovation and every important figure. This volume features ener...  read more
 


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"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival." — Times Literary Supplement. Volume I of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and includes every landmark innovation and every important figure. This volume features energetic discourses on Euclid, Apollonius, and others.
Reprint of the Oxford University Press, 1921 edition.

Bonus Editorial Feature:

Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940) was unusual for an authority on many esoteric, and many less esoteric, subjects in the history of mathematics in that he was never a university professor. The son of an English farmer from Lincolnshire, Heath demonstrated his academic gifts at a young age; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1879 to 1882; came away with numerous awards; and obtained the top grade in the 1884 English Civil Service examination. From that foundation, he went to work in the English Treasury, rose through the ranks, and by 1913, was permanent secretary to the Treasury, effectively the head of its operations. He left that post in 1919 at the end of the first World War, worked several years at the National Debt office, and retired in 1926.
During all of that time, however, he became independently one of the world's leading authorities on the history of mathematics, especially on the history of ancient Greek mathematics. Heath's three-volume edition of Euclid is still the standard, it is generally accepted that it is primarily through Heath's great work on Archimedes that the accomplishments of Archimedes are known as well as they are.

Dover has reprinted these and other books by Heath, preserving over several decades a unique legacy in the history of mathematical scholarship.

In the Author's Own Words:
"The works of Archimedes are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the propositions, the stern elimination of everything not immediately relevant to the purpose, the finish of the whole, are so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader." — Thomas L. Heath

Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486240738
ISBN 13: 9780486240732
Author/Editor: Sir Thomas Heath
Format: Book
Page Count: 461
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: May 1981

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