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Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity - Cambridge Classical Studies
Cuomo, Serafina (Christ's College, Cambridge)
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity - Cambridge Classical Studies
Cuomo, Serafina (Christ's College, Cambridge)
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.
248 pages, 12 figures
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 9, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780521642118 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Dimensions | 223 × 194 × 22 mm · 458 g |
Series Editor | Garnsey, Peter |
Series Editor | Horrocks, G. C. (University of Cambridge, Uk) |
Series Editor | Hunter, R. L. |
Series Editor | Millett, M. |
Series Editor | Osborne, R. G. |
Series Editor | Sedley, D. N. |