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Page 45
... published the Greek text of the first four books and a Latin translation of the remain- ing three , together with his conjectural restoration of the eighth book , founded on the introductory lemmas of Pappus . The first four books ...
... published the Greek text of the first four books and a Latin translation of the remain- ing three , together with his conjectural restoration of the eighth book , founded on the introductory lemmas of Pappus . The first four books ...
Page 46
... published ' at this time . It reads thus : " I have sent my son Apollonius to bring you ( Eudemus ) the second book of my Conics . Read it carefully and communi- cate it to such others as are worthy of it . If Philonides , the geometer ...
... published ' at this time . It reads thus : " I have sent my son Apollonius to bring you ( Eudemus ) the second book of my Conics . Read it carefully and communi- cate it to such others as are worthy of it . If Philonides , the geometer ...
Page 53
... published an astronomi- cal work still extant . He wrote also a book , now lost , on the Arrangement of Mathematics , which contained many valuable notices of the early history of Greek mathematics . Proclus THE GREEKS . 53.
... published an astronomi- cal work still extant . He wrote also a book , now lost , on the Arrangement of Mathematics , which contained many valuable notices of the early history of Greek mathematics . Proclus THE GREEKS . 53.
Page 79
... published in 457 A.D. Payments of interest and problems in interest were very old among the Romans . The Roman laws of inheritance gave rise to numerous arithmetical examples . Especially unique is the following : A dying man wills that ...
... published in 457 A.D. Payments of interest and problems in interest were very old among the Romans . The Roman laws of inheritance gave rise to numerous arithmetical examples . Especially unique is the following : A dying man wills that ...
Page 128
... various peoples all the knowl- edge he could get on this subject . Of all the methods of calculation , he found the Hindoo to be unquestionably the best . Returning to Pisa , he published , in 128 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS .
... various peoples all the knowl- edge he could get on this subject . Of all the methods of calculation , he found the Hindoo to be unquestionably the best . Returning to Pisa , he published , in 128 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS .
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