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... Greeks 16 Greek Geometry 16 The Ionic School 17 The School of Pythagoras 19 The Sophist School 23 The Platonic School 29 The First Alexandrian School 34 The Second Alexandrian School 54 Greek Arithmetic 63 The Romans 77 MIDDLE AGES 84 ...
... Greeks 16 Greek Geometry 16 The Ionic School 17 The School of Pythagoras 19 The Sophist School 23 The Platonic School 29 The First Alexandrian School 34 The Second Alexandrian School 54 Greek Arithmetic 63 The Romans 77 MIDDLE AGES 84 ...
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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 . PAGE 1 16 16 17 19 The Sophist School 23 The Platonic School . 29 The First ...
Florian Cajori. TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ANTIQUITY THE BABYLONIANS THE EGYPTIANS THE GREEKS Greek Geometry The Ionic School . The School of Pythagoras . PAGE 1 16 16 17 19 The Sophist School 23 The Platonic School . 29 The First ...
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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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... Greeks and the arithmetic of the Hindoos as useful and admirable as any research of to - day . He is pleased to notice that though , in course of its develop- ment , mathematics has had periods of slow growth , yet in the main it has ...
... Greeks and the arithmetic of the Hindoos as useful and admirable as any research of to - day . He is pleased to notice that though , in course of its develop- ment , mathematics has had periods of slow growth , yet in the main it has ...
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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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