Greek Mathematical Works Volume I

<p><b>Elemental learning.</b> <p/>The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical notation and operations including square root and cube root; Pythagorean arithmetic including properties of numbers; the square root of 2; proportion and means; algebraic equations; Proclus; Thales; Pythagorean geometry; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; duplicating the cube and squaring the circle; trisecting angles; Theaetetus; Plato; Eudoxus of Cnidus (pyramid cone); Aristotle (the infinite the lever); Euclid. <p/> Volume II (LCL 362) contains Aristarchus (distances of sun and moon); Archimedes (cylinder sphere cubic equations; conoids; spheroids; spiral; expression of large numbers; mechanics; hydrostatics); Eratosthenes (measurement of the earth); Apollonius (conic sections and other works); later development of geometry; trigonometry (including Ptolemy's table of sines); mensuration: Heron of Alexandria (mensuration); Diophantus (algebra determinate and indeterminate equations); Pappus (the revival of geometry).</p>