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...this fascinating book will be useful in classical civilization classes as well as history of mathematics classes.
–Anne Mahoney, Tufts University, New england Classical Journal, Vol. 29.3 2002
The mathematics in question includes not only research ... but also what we would nowadays call 'numeracy' or 'mathematical literacy.' This allows her to look broadly at all sections of of ancient society, not just the educated classes with the leisure for scholarship. As a result, Ancient Mathematics combines mathematics and social history.
–Anne Mahoney, Tufts University, New England Classical Journal, vol. 29.3 2002
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It covers the period between the fifth-century BCE to the sixth-century CE and such topics as mathematics and politics in classical Greece, the formation of mathematical traditions, and mathematics and Christianity.
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...this fascinating book will be useful in classical civilization classes as well as history of mathematics classes.
–Anne Mahoney, Tufts University, New england Classical Journal, Vol. 29.3 2002
Nicely written, expertly researched. - Times Literary Supplement
Ancient Mathematics provides a rich and diverse picture of mathematics in ancient Greece and Rome. With C. history of mathematics sheds its ahistoricity and gets its hands dirty. - Journal of Roman Studies
This book is engagingly written; and it is a pleasure to entrust oneself to Cuomos choices. - Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
The mathematics in question includes not only research ... but also what we would nowadays call 'numeracy' or 'mathematical literacy.' This allows her to look broadly at all sections of of ancient society, not just the educated classes with the leisure for scholarship. As a result, Ancient Mathematics combines mathematics and social history.
–Anne Mahoney, Tufts University, New England Classical Journal, vol. 29.3 2002
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It covers the period between the fifth-century BCE to the sixth-century CE and such topics as mathematics and politics in classical Greece, the formation of mathematical traditions, and mathematics and Christianity.
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Our story officially begins in the Greek-speaking world around the late sixth-fifth century BC, during a period also known as the Classical Age of Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
praetorian legate, ancient mathematics, thousand drachmae, rectilinear figure, length without breadth, ancient mathematicians, remaining angles, figure constructed, mathematical practices, mean proportional, section constructed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Euclid's Elements, Diogenes Laertius, Clement of Alexandria, Hippocrates of Chios, Sextus Empiricus, Siculus Flaccus, Construction of Catapults, Pliny the Elder, Tusculan Disputations, Cairo Zen, Categories of Fields, Doura Europus, Mathematical Collection, Philo of Byzantium, Plato's Republic, Princeton University Press, Agennius Urbicus, Asia Minor, Big Guys, Col Zen, Dtogenes Laertius, Philo of Alexandria, Plato's Theaetetus, Pliny the Younger, Reading Plato New!
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Our story officially begins in the Greek-speaking world around the late sixth-fifth century BC, during a period also known as the Classical Age of Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
praetorian legate, ancient mathematics, thousand drachmae, rectilinear figure, length without breadth, ancient mathematicians, remaining angles, figure constructed, mathematical practices, mean proportional, section constructed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Euclid's Elements, Diogenes Laertius, Clement of Alexandria, Hippocrates of Chios, Sextus Empiricus, Siculus Flaccus, Construction of Catapults, Pliny the Elder, Tusculan Disputations, Cairo Zen, Categories of Fields, Doura Europus, Mathematical Collection, Philo of Byzantium, Plato's Republic, Princeton University Press, Agennius Urbicus, Asia Minor, Big Guys, Col Zen, Dtogenes Laertius, Philo of Alexandria, Plato's Theaetetus, Pliny the Younger, Reading Plato New!
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- Tusculan disputations (Classical texts) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 5 pages
- Introduction to Arithmetic by G Nicomachus on 5 pages
- Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on page 14, page 34, and Back Matter
- The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Proclus on page 237, page 245, and Back Matter
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 35, page 2, and Back Matter
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- Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by Corinna Rossi on page 89, and Back Matter
- Ancient Mathematics (Sciences of Antiquity) by Serafina Cuomo in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History (Spectrum) by Marlow Anderson on page 105
- The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) by Glenn R. Bugh in Back Matter
- The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China (Ideas in Context) by G. E. R. Lloyd in Back Matter
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