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... the responsibility for errors which I may have introduced in subsequent revision of the text . FLORIAN CAJORI . COLORADO COLLEGE , December , 1893 . TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ANTIQUITY THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS vi PREFACE .
... the responsibility for errors which I may have introduced in subsequent revision of the text . FLORIAN CAJORI . COLORADO COLLEGE , December , 1893 . TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ANTIQUITY THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS vi PREFACE .
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Florian Cajori. TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ANTIQUITY THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS THE GREEKS · Greek Geometry · The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . The Sophist School . The Platonic School . The First Alexandrian School ...
Florian Cajori. TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ANTIQUITY THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS THE GREEKS · Greek Geometry · The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . The Sophist School . The Platonic School . The First Alexandrian School ...
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... GEOMETRY ALGEBRA ANALYSIS THEORY OF FUNCTIONS . THEORY OF NUMBERS APPLIED MATHEMATICS . INDEX PAGE 246 . 285 . 291 293 307 315 331 347 362 373 405 BOOKS OF REFERENCE . The following books , pamphlets , viii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... GEOMETRY ALGEBRA ANALYSIS THEORY OF FUNCTIONS . THEORY OF NUMBERS APPLIED MATHEMATICS . INDEX PAGE 246 . 285 . 291 293 307 315 331 347 362 373 405 BOOKS OF REFERENCE . The following books , pamphlets , viii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... tables for weights and measures . It is full of historical interest . Its consequential development , both for ... table of square numbers up to 60o . The numbers 1 , 4 , 9 , 16 , 25 , 36 , 49 , are given as the squares of the first ...
... tables for weights and measures . It is full of historical interest . Its consequential development , both for ... table of square numbers up to 60o . The numbers 1 , 4 , 9 , 16 , 25 , 36 , 49 , are given as the squares of the first ...
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... tables answers this question , for they happen to contain no number in which there was occasion to use a zero . The sexagesimal system was used also in fractions . Thus , in the Babylonian inscriptions , and are designated by 30 and 20 ...
... tables answers this question , for they happen to contain no number in which there was occasion to use a zero . The sexagesimal system was used also in fractions . Thus , in the Babylonian inscriptions , and are designated by 30 and 20 ...
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