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  1. David Fowler - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Fowler_David_Guardian/

    7 Mar 2023: Fowler's initial venture into history began in 1979 with a ground-breaking paper Ratio In Early Greek Mathematics, published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. ... Although parts of his work have been considered controversial by some,

  2. Oenopides (490 BC - 420 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931). ... D R Dicks, Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle (London, 1970). J Mau, Oinopides, in Der Kleine Pauly IV (Stuttgart, 1972), cols.

  3. Greek sources II - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: In the 5th century AD, Proclus wrote his Commentary on Euclid which is our principal source of knowledge about the early history of Greek geometry. ... show). T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1921).

  4. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: Observations on the early history of the conics. Centaurus 26 (1) (1982/83), 1-24. ... In the preceding paper on the variant texts of the hyperbola-construction certain questions were raised concerning the early history of the study of the conic sections.

  5. Leucippus (480 BC - 420 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: C Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 1928). J Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy (1987). ... W K C Guthrie, History of Greek Philosophy II (Cambridge, 1965).

  6. Trigonometric functions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: I Grattan-Guinness, Work for hairdressers : The production of de Prony's logarithmic and trigonometric tables, Annals of the History of Computing 12 (1967), 121-136. ... Soc. 1 (1939), 77-92. G J Toomer, The chord table of Hipparchus and the early

  7. Hipparchus (190 BC - 120 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Hist. Exact Sci. 29 (3) (1984), 201-236. O Neugebauer, The early history of the astrolabe, Isis 40 (1949), 240-256. ... G J Toomer, The chord table of Hipparchus and the early history of Greek trigonometry, Centaurus 18 (1973/74), 6-28.

  8. Greek astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: A Berry, A short history of astronomy (New York, 1961). D R Dicks, Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle (London, 1970). ... Ast. Soc. 67 (1906), 2-17. D Pingree, The recovery of early Greek astronomy from India, J.

  9. Proclus (411 - 485) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Proclus wrote Commentary on Euclid which is our principal source about the early history of Greek geometry. ... W Beierwaltes, Proklos (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1965). T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).

  10. David Fowler (1937 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: I corresponded with him, particularly regarding the history of ancient Greek mathematics, and in one letter he explained to me how he first became interested in history. ... C Zeeman, Obituary David Fowler : A leading expert on the history of early Greek