Book:Sir Thomas Heath/A History of Greek Mathematics/Volume I

Sir Thomas Heath: A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume $\text { I }$: From Thales to Euclid

Published $\text {1921}$, Dover

ISBN 0-486-24073-8

Subject Matter

A history of Greek mathematics

Contents

Preface

I. INTRODUCTORY

II. GREEK NUMERICAL NOTATION AND ARITHMETICAL OPERATIONS

III. PYTHAGOREAN ARITHMETIC

IV. THE EARLIEST GREEK GEOMETRY. THALES.

V. PYTHAGOREAN GEOMETRY

VI PROGRESS IN THE ELEMENTS DOWN TO PLATO'S TIME

VII SPECIAL PROBLEMS

VIII ZENO OF ELEA

IX PLATO

X FROM PLATO TO EUCLID

XI EUCLID

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Epigraph

Greece and her foundations are

Built below the tide of war,

Based on the crystàlline sea

Of thought and its eternity

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley: (poem) Hellas: A Lyrical Drama ($1921$)