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The perspective that enabled Sir Thomas Heath to understand the Greek genius -- deep intimacy with languages, literatures, philosophy, and all the sciences -- brought him perhaps closer to his beloved subjects and to their own ideal of educated men, than is common or even possible today. Heath read the original texts with a critical, scrupulous eye, and brought to this definitive two-volume history the insights of a mathematician communicated with the clarity of classically taught English
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A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II: From Aristarchus to Diophantus, Thomas Heath
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- Released
- 1981
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- Title
- A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II: From Aristarchus to Diophantus
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Thomas Heath
- Publisher
- DOVER PUBN INC
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN10
- 0486240746
- ISBN13
- 9780486240749
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Classics, Science, USA, Mathematics, History & Theory of Science, History of Science, History of Mathematics
- Description
- The perspective that enabled Sir Thomas Heath to understand the Greek genius -- deep intimacy with languages, literatures, philosophy, and all the sciences -- brought him perhaps closer to his beloved subjects and to their own ideal of educated men, than is common or even possible today. Heath read the original texts with a critical, scrupulous eye, and brought to this definitive two-volume history the insights of a mathematician communicated with the clarity of classically taught English