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James Gow
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ISBN: 0486495892
Page Count: 352
Dimensions: 5 5/8 x 8 1/2
Mathematicians will find accounts of every extant Greek mathematical book and many proofs translated directly from ancient texts. Students and Greek scholars will encounter a chronicle of the development of mathematical science, including the decimal scale; Egyptian and Greek arithmetic; the Greek theory of numbers; Greek geometry; Egyptian geometry; and the works of Euclid, Archimedes, and their successors.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by C. J. Clay and Son, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1884.

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