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  1. Chronology for 500 - 900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/4/

    7 Mar 2023: Eutocius of Ascalon writes commentaries on Archimedes' work. ... Eutocius writes commentaries on the works of Archimedes anda mathematician of note, is the architect for the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople.

  2. Knorr's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Knorr_books/

    7 Mar 2023: Knorr proceeds instead by working his way exhaustively through the surviving texts on the subject from earliest Greek times through Plato and Euclid to the high points of Archimedes and Apollonius. ... From Hippocrates through Eudoxus, Archytas and

  3. Eutocius (480 - 540) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eutocius/

    7 Mar 2023: Died. about 540. Summary. Eutocius was a Greek mathematician who wrote commentaries on works of Archimedes and Apollonius. ... R Lorch, The Arabic transmission of Archimedes' 'Sphere and cylinder' and Eutocius' commentary, Z.

  4. Greek numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_numbers/

    7 Mar 2023: On the other hand mathematicians did see the need to extend the number system and we now look at two such proposals, first one by Apollonius and then briefly one by ... Archimedes (although in fact historically Archimedes made his proposal nearly 50

  5. Marin Mersenne English version PDF (570k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/mersenne.pdf

    3 Mar 2021: 31 101.2 M , 20. 67 1048.1 M , 38. 127 107.1 M and 77. ... In 1626 MERSENNE published translations of works by the Greek mathematicians EUCLID, APOLLONIUS and ARCHIMEDES.

  6. Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schooten/

    14 May 2024: of the works of Apollonius on plane loci in Book III. ... Book V is titled Sectiones triginta miscellaneas and develops combinatorial techniques for counting problems.

  7. Stringham address - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Stringham_address/

    7 Mar 2023: First, Thales at Miletus, then Pythagoras at Crotona, then Hippocrates at Athens, then Euclid at Alexandria, then Archimedes at Syracuse, then Apollonius at Perga, then Pappus at Alexandria, wrought out in ... Geometry did not free itself from the

  8. Greek sources II - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_2/

    10 Jul 2023: Heath deduces from the quotes in Eutocius thatwas later than Archimedes and Apollonius. ... In the paper La cissoid et Diocles written by Paul Tannery, which was certainly known to Heath, it was noted that the reference to Apollonius in Eutocius's

  9. Apollonius of Perga English version PDF (601k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/apollonius.pdf

    3 Mar 2021: by HEINZ KLAUS STRICK, Germany. The fact that the Greek postal administration has so far only remembered the mathematicians THALES (624 – 547 BC), PYTHAGORAS (580 – 500 BC) and ARCHIMEDES (287 – 212 ... EUCLID, ARCHIMEDES and APOLLONIUS that they

  10. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Knorr_papers/

    12 Jul 2023: how was Archimedes' work related to the investigations of neuses by his younger contemporaries, Apollonius and Nicomedes? ... Its composer and the agent of its insertion into the Conies proves to be Eutocius of Askalon, the early sixth-century