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Title page of A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume I

A History of Greek Mathematics is a book by English historian of mathematics Thomas Heath about history of Greek mathematics. It was published in Oxford in 1921, in two volumes titled Volume I, From Thales to Euclid and Volume II, From Aristarchus to Diophantus. It got positive reviews and is still used today. Ten years later, in 1931, Heath published A Manual of Greek Mathematics, a concise version of the two-volume History.

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A History of Greek Mathematics

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A History of Greek Mathematics is a book by English historian of mathematics Thomas Heath about history of Greek mathematics. It was published in Oxford...

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Greek mathematics

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but were united by Greek culture and the Greek language. The development of mathematics as a theoretical discipline and the use of deductive reasoning...

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History of mathematics

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who coined the term "mathematics" from the ancient Greek μάθημα (mathema), meaning "subject of instruction". Greek mathematics greatly refined the methods...

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History of mathematical notation

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The history of mathematical notation includes the commencement, progress, and cultural diffusion of mathematical symbols and the conflict of the methods...

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History of algebra

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Numbers: Their History and Meaning, Dover publications, ISBN 978-0-486-42165-0 Heath, Thomas Little (1981a), A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume I, Dover...

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Mathematics

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applications. Historically, the concept of a proof and its associated mathematical rigour first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid's Elements...

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Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world

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Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built on Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius)...

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Greeks

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CIA World Factbook on Greece: Greek Orthodox 98%, Greek Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%. Thomas Heath (1981). A History of Greek Mathematics. Courier Dover Publications...

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Outline of mathematics

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Cryptography Mathematical biology Babylonian mathematics Egyptian mathematics Indian mathematics Greek mathematics Chinese mathematics History of the Hindu–Arabic...

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Figurate number

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"figural number". In historical works about Greek mathematics the preferred term used to be figured number. In a use going back to Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi...

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List of Greek mathematicians

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times, Greek civilization has played one of the major roles in the history and development of Greek mathematics. To this day, a number of Greek mathematicians...

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Hero of Alexandria

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Hero of Alexandria (/ˈhɪəroʊ/; Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Hērōn hò Alexandreús, also known as Heron of Alexandria /ˈhɛrən/; fl. 60 AD) was a Greek mathematician...

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Sigma

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position ς; Greek: σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 200. In general mathematics, uppercase...

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Timeline of scientific discoveries

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(1921). A History of Greek Mathematics (Vol II). Oxford University Press. pp. 321–323. Pasipoularides, Ares (1 March 2014). "Galen, father of systematic...

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Euclid

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(/ˈjuːklɪd/; Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he...

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List of mathematics history topics

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is a list of mathematics history topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of mathematicians, timeline of mathematics, history of mathematics, list of publications...

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Thales of Miletus

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Thales of Miletus (/ˈθeɪliːz/ THAY-leez; Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623  – c. 548/545 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia...

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Tau

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; Greek: ταυ [taf]) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive IPA: [t]. In the system of Greek...

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List of ancient Greek writers

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Economic history of ancient Greece The Greek currency history Limenoscope, an ancient Greek ports database The Ancient Theatre Archive, Greek and Roman...

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Squaring the circle

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the circle is a problem in geometry first proposed in Greek mathematics. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the area of a given circle by...

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Kappa

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Greek: κάππα, káppa) is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive IPA: [k] sound in Ancient and Modern Greek....

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Gamma

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lowercase γ; Greek: γάμμα gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter...

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History of trigonometry

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series. History of science portal Mathematics portal Greek mathematics History of mathematics Trigonometric functions Trigonometry Ptolemy's table of chords...

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Perimeter

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Prentice Hall. p. 215–216. ISBN 978-0131469686. Heath, T. (1981). A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. Dover Publications. p. 206. ISBN 0-486-24074-6. de...

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Rho

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lowercase ρ or ϱ; Greek: ρο or ρω) is the seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 100. It is derived...

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Area of a triangle

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A History of Greek Mathematics (Vol II). Oxford University Press. pp. 321–323. Weisstein, Eric W. "Heron's Formula". MathWorld. "Euclid's Proof of the...

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Phi

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phi. Like other Greek letters, lowercase phi (encoded as the Unicode character U+03C6 φ GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI) is used as a mathematical or scientific...

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