Pappus of Alexandria: Book 4 of the Collection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sefrin-Weis, Heike. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry.; History of Mathematical Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-005-2

Although not so well known today, Book 4 of Pappus Collection is one of the most important and influential mathematical texts from antiquity, both because of its content and because of its impact on early modern mathematics after 1600. As a kind of textbook in anthology format, the mathematical vig...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction
• Part I - Text and translation;- Greek text and annotated translation
• Part II - Commentary;- 2 Plane Geometry
• 3 Plane Geometry, Archaic Style
• 4 Plane Geometry, Archimedean
• 5 Motion curves and symptoma-mathematics
• 6 Meta-theoretical passage
• 7 Angle trisection
• 8 General angle division
• 9 Quadratix, rectification property
• 10 Analysis for an Archimedean neusis
• Appendices.