Euclid: Elements, Archimedes: Works, Apollonius: Conic Sections, Nicomachus: Arithmetic
'Euclid: Elements / Archimedes: Works / Apollonius: Conic Sections / Nicomachus: Arithmetic'
By Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor), Euclid (Author), Archimedes (Author), Apollonius of Perga (Author), Nicomachus of Gerasa (Author), Thomas L. Heath (Translator), R. Catesby Taliaferro (Translator), Martin L. D'Ooge (Translator)
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Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World Volume 11, first edition (later printing), 848 pages. 8vo (9.5" x 6.5") Contents: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements; Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder, Measurement of a Circle, On Conoids and Spheroids, On Spirals, On the Equilibrium of Planes, The Sand-Reckoner, The Quadrature of the Parabola, On Floating Bodies. Book of Lemmas. and The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems; Apollonius of Perga: On Conic Sections; Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic. The Euclid and Archimedes are translated by Sir Thomas L. Heath, and is licensed from Cambridge University Press. Apollonius is translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro. Nichomachus is translated by Martin L. D'Ooge.
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Nicomachus, or Nicomachus of Gerasa, (Greek: Νικόμαχος; c. 60 – c. 120 CE) was an important ancient mathematician best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic and Manual of Harmonics in Greek. He was born in Gerasa, in the Roman province of Syria (now Jerash, Jordan), and was strongly influenced by Aristotle. He was a Neopythagorean, who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers.
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