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Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity

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This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also an examination of the work's wider cultural setting. This is one of very few books to deal extensively with the mathematics of Late Antiquity. It sees Pappus' text as part of a wider context and relates it to other contemporary cultural practices and opens new avenues to research into the public understanding of mathematics and mathematical disciplines in antiquity.

Author(s): Serafina Cuomo
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 248

Cover......Page 1
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
1. The outside world......Page 16
2. Bees and philosophers......Page 64
3. Inclined planes and architects......Page 98
4. Altars and strange curves......Page 134
5. The inside story......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 209
General index......Page 231
Index locorum......Page 235