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Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
 
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-0-88385-928-5
Product Code:  NML/13.E
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MAA Member Price: $37.50
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Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-0-88385-928-5
Product Code:  NML/13.E
List Price: $50.00
MAA Member Price: $37.50
AMS Member Price: $37.50
  • Book Details
     
     
    Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library
    Volume: 131998; 133 pp

    Among other things, Aaboe shows us how the Babylonians did calculations, how Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes, how Ptolemy constructed a trigonometric table in his Almagest, and how Archimedes trisected the angle. Some of the topics may be familiar to the reader, while others will seem surprising or be new.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • Chapter 1. Babylonian Mathematics
    • Chapter 2. Early Greek Mathematics and Euclid’s Construction of the Regular Pentagon
    • Chapter 3. Three Samples of Archimedean Mathematics
    • Chapter 4. Ptolemy’s Construction of a Trigonometric Table
    • Appendix
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Volume: 131998; 133 pp

Among other things, Aaboe shows us how the Babylonians did calculations, how Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes, how Ptolemy constructed a trigonometric table in his Almagest, and how Archimedes trisected the angle. Some of the topics may be familiar to the reader, while others will seem surprising or be new.

  • Chapters
  • Chapter 1. Babylonian Mathematics
  • Chapter 2. Early Greek Mathematics and Euclid’s Construction of the Regular Pentagon
  • Chapter 3. Three Samples of Archimedean Mathematics
  • Chapter 4. Ptolemy’s Construction of a Trigonometric Table
  • Appendix
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