The Bequest of the Greeks

Tobias Dantzig
Allen Unwin | 1955 | 201 páginas | pdf | 6,9 Mb

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Contents

PREFACE 7

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Part One THE STAGE AND THE CAST

1 On Greeks and Grecians 15

2 The Founders 20

3 On the Genesis of Geometry 34

4 Pyramids 46

5 Pentacles 55

6 The Pseudomath 72

7 The Interdiction 84

Part Two IN RETROSPECT an Anthology of the Greek Bequest

8 The Hypotenuse Theorem 95

9 Triples 108

10 The Crescents of Hippocrates 121

11 The Quadratrix of Hippias 138

12 The Algorithm of Euclid 145

13 An Archimedean Approximation 152

14 The Formula of Hero 160

15 The Chords of Hipparchus 169

EPILOGUE 180

INDEX 189