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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 . PAGE ANTIQUITY INTRODUCTION THE BABYLONIANS THE 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 . PAGE ANTIQUITY INTRODUCTION THE BABYLONIANS THE vi PREFACE .
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Florian Cajori. TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE ANTIQUITY INTRODUCTION THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS THE GREEKS Greek Geometry The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . 1 5 5 9 16 16 17 • 19 · The Sophist School The Platonic School . 23 29 ...
Florian Cajori. TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE ANTIQUITY INTRODUCTION THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS THE GREEKS Greek Geometry The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . 1 5 5 9 16 16 17 • 19 · The Sophist School The Platonic School . 23 29 ...
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... 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 .
... 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 602. The numbers 1 , 4 , 9 , 16 , 25 , 36 , 49 , are given as the squares of the first seven ...
... tables for weights and measures . It is full of historical interest . Its consequential development , both for ... table of square numbers up to 602. The numbers 1 , 4 , 9 , 16 , 25 , 36 , 49 , are given as the squares of the first seven ...
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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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