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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...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Episodes From the Early History of Mathematics -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Babylonian Mathematics -- 1.1 Sources -- 1.2 The Babylonian Number System. A Multiplication Table -- 1.3 The Babylonian Number System. A Table of Reciprocals -- 1.4 Positional Number Systems -- 1.5 Babylonian Arithmetic -- 1.6 Three Babylonian Mathematical Texts -- 1.7 Summary -- Chapter 2. Early Greek Mathematics and Euclid�s Construction of the Regular Pentagon -- 2.1 Sources -- 2.2 Greek Mathematics before Euclid | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.3 Euclid�s Elements2.4 Euclid�s Construction of the Regular Pentagon -- Chapter 3. Three Samples of Archimedean Mathematics -- 3.1 Archimedes� Life -- 3.2 Archimedes� Works -- 3.3 Constructions of Regular Polygons -- 3.4 Archimedes� Trisection of an Angle -- 3.5 Archimedes� Construction of the Regular Heptagon -- 3.6 Volume and Surface of a Sphere According to The Method -- Chapter 4. Ptolemy�s Construction of a Trigonometric Table -- 4.1 Ptolemy and The Almaugest -- 4.2 Ptolemy�s Table of Chords and Its Uses | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4.3 Ptolemy�s Construction of the Table of ChordsAppendix: Ptolemy�s Epicyclic Models -- Solutions to Problems -- Bibliography -- Back Cover | |
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