Pappus of Alexandria Book 7 of the Collection: Part 1. Introduction, Text, and Translation Tapa dura - 1985 - 1986th Edición

Springer-Verlag. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0387962573 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light soiling to rear board of vol. 2 else books have very minor shelfwear. ; The seventh book of Pappus's Collection, his commentary on the Domain (or Treasury) of Analysis, figures prominently in the history of both ancient and modern mathematics: as our chief source of information concerning several lost works of the Greek geometers Euclid and Apollonius, and as a book that inspired later mathematicians, among them Viete, Newton, and Chasles, to original discoveries in their pursuit of the lost science of antiquity. This presentation of it is concerned solely with recovering what can be learned from Pappus about Greek mathematics. The main part of it comprises a new edition of Book 7; a literal translation; and a commentary on textual, historical, and mathematical aspects of the book. It proved to be convenient to divide the commentary into two parts,… Leer más

Springer, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. X, 375 Pp.; Vi, 376-748. Two Separate Volumes. Yellow Cloth. First Printings Indicated. Fine, No Marks.