Pappus of Alexandria and the mathematics of late antiquity

by: Cuomo, S.

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This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also an examination of the work's wider cultural setting. This is one of very few books to deal extensively with the mathematics of Late Antiquity. It sees Pappus' text as part of a wider context and relates it to other contemporary cultural practices and opens new avenues to research into the public understanding of mathematics and mathematical disciplines in antiquity.

Pappus of Alexandria is quite a neglected subject
Relates mathematical practices to other cultural practices in Late Antiquity
Concludes that Pappus had a precise agenda and used his sources strategically

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The outside world
2. Bees and philosophers
3. Inclined planes and architects
4. Altars and strange curves
5. The inside story
Bibliography
General index
Index locorum.

Pappus of Alexandria and the mathematics of late antiquity

by: Cuomo, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780521642118 / 978-0-521-64211-8
• ISBN-03: 0521642116 / 0-521-64211-6
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000

Price: 69,00 EURO

1 copy in stock