Product Description: The mathematical works of Archimedes

Product Description: Originally published in 1920, this volume contains book one of Euclid's Elements in Greek, together with an introduction and notes section written in English. It was created to provide young students with a contextual understanding of geometry and the development of geometrical principles, one which was increasingly neglected in the standard school textbooks of the time...read more

Product Description: Nicole Oresme (ca. 1320-1384) was one of the most important intellectual figures of the scholastic period: not only was he a leading philosopher, theologian, astronomer and mathematician, but he was also involved in practical matters; he was secretary to the king of France, he was bishop of Lisieux, and he was involved in the assessment of coins and associated political problems...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: "The Commentary of al-Nayrizi (circa 920) on Euclid's Elements of Geometry" occupies an important place both in the history of mathematics and of philosophy, particularly Islamic philosophy. It is a compilation of original work by al-Nayrizi and of translations and commentaries made by others, such as Heron...read more

Product Description: This historic work consists of several treatises that developed the first consistent, coherent, and systematic conception of algebraic equations. Originally published in 1591, it pioneered the notion of using symbols of one kind (vowels) for unknowns and of another kind (consonants) for known quantities, thus streamlining the solution of equations...read more

Product Description: Anthony Lo Bello's Gerard of Cremona's Translation of Book I of the Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Euclid's Elements of Geometry is the first modern translation of Gerard of Cremona's (1114-1187) Latin version of al-Nayrizi's famous Arabic commentary...read more

Product Description: For more than two millennia, the Elements of Geometry by the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (c.300 BCE) was held to be "the supreme example of the exercise of human reason" and "a paradigm of rational certainty". "The Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry" introduces readers to the transmission of Euclid's Elements from the Middle East to the Latin West in the Mediaeval period and then offers the first English translation of al-Nayrizi's (d...read more

Product Description: The Commentary of Albertus Magnus on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry is the third in Lo Bello's series on the Elements. Lo Bello provides the first modern translation of a key Latin text of the Elements in the Middle Ages, the commentary of the Dominican scholastic philosopher Albertus Magnus (d...read more

Product Description: This book is a scholarly contribution to an area that is still insufficiently understood - the history of Greek geometrical analysis. At the time of Zeuthen, and even up to the middle of the last century, it was fashionable to treat the Data algebraically...read more

This book presents a reinterpretation of early Greek mathematics, one of the most tantalizing intellectual subjects of the last 2,000 years. The first part offers several new interpretations of the idea of ratio in early Greek mathematics and illustrates them in detailed discussion of several texts. Part Two discusses the historical context of the subject--what we know of Plato's academy during his lifetime, the origin of our text of Euclid's Elements, and what we know of early Greek numerical practice. The book finishes with an account of the theory of continued fractions and its history since the 17th century. (view table of contents)

Product Description: For textual studies relating to the ancient mathematical corpus the efforts by the Danish philologist, 1. L. Heiberg (1854-1928), are especially significant. Beginning with his doctoral dissertation, Quaestiones Archimedeae (Copen­ hagen, 1879), Heiberg produced an astonishing series of editions and critical studies that remain the foundation of scholarship on Greek mathematical 4 science...read more

Product Description: Operations Of The Geometric And Military Compass, by Galileo Galilei