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... GREEKS 9 16 Greek Geometry 16 • The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . 17 19 The Sophist School 23 The Platonic School . 29 The First Alexandrian School 34 The Second Alexandrian School 54 THE ROMANS Greek Arithmetic . MIDDLE ...
... GREEKS 9 16 Greek Geometry 16 • The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . 17 19 The Sophist School 23 The Platonic School . 29 The First Alexandrian School 34 The Second Alexandrian School 54 THE ROMANS Greek Arithmetic . MIDDLE ...
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... Greek Mathematics . Cambridge , 1884 . 7. * HANKEL , HERMANN . Zur Geschichte der Mathematik im Alterthum * und Mittelalter . Leipzig , 1874 . 8. ALLMAN , G. J. Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid . Dublin , 1889 . 9. DE MORGAN , A ...
... Greek Mathematics . Cambridge , 1884 . 7. * HANKEL , HERMANN . Zur Geschichte der Mathematik im Alterthum * und Mittelalter . Leipzig , 1874 . 8. ALLMAN , G. J. Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid . Dublin , 1889 . 9. DE MORGAN , A ...
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... Greek geom- eter Hypsicles and the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemæus borrowed the sexagesimal notation of fractions from the Babylonians and introduced it into Greece . From that time sexagesimal fractions held almost full sway in ...
... Greek geom- eter Hypsicles and the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemæus borrowed the sexagesimal notation of fractions from the Babylonians and introduced it into Greece . From that time sexagesimal fractions held almost full sway in ...
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... Greek writers are unanimous in ascribing , without envy , to Egypt the priority of invention in the mathematical sciences . Plato in Phædrus says : " At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth ...
... Greek writers are unanimous in ascribing , without envy , to Egypt the priority of invention in the mathematical sciences . Plato in Phædrus says : " At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth ...
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... Greek mathematicians who came to the Egyptian priests for instruction . An insight into Egyptian methods of numeration was ob- tained through the ingenious deciphering of the hieroglyphics by Champollion , Young , and their successors ...
... Greek mathematicians who came to the Egyptian priests for instruction . An insight into Egyptian methods of numeration was ob- tained through the ingenious deciphering of the hieroglyphics by Champollion , Young , and their successors ...
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