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Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity

Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity

Cuomo, Serafina
Cuomo, S.
Easterling, P. E.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Classical Studies

PhilosophyGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 0521642116
ISBN13: 9780521642118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 9 2000
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.78
Language: English
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. This is one of very few books to deal extensively with the mathematics of Late Antiquity. It sees Pappus' text as part of a wider context and relates it to other contemporary cultural practices and opens new avenues to research into the public understanding of mathematics and mathematical disciplines in antiquity.

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