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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... published two works , Rule of Com- putation on the Abacus , and A Small Book on the Division of Numbers . They give an insight into the methods of calcu- lation practised in Europe before the introduction of the Hindoo numerals ...
... published two works , Rule of Com- putation on the Abacus , and A Small Book on the Division of Numbers . They give an insight into the methods of calcu- lation practised in Europe before the introduction of the Hindoo numerals ...
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... 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 , 128 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS . The First Awakening and its Sequel ·
... 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 , 128 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS . The First Awakening and its Sequel ·
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Page 292 - THEOREM. If a straight line, falling on two other straight lines, make the alternate angles equal to each other ; these two straight lines shall be parallel.
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Page 419 - FERRERS.— AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE on TRILINEAR CO-ORDINATES, the Method of Reciprocal Polars, and the Theory of Projections. By the Rev. NM FERRERS, MA, Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.