Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
Cuomo, Serafina / Cuomo, S. / Easterling, P. E.
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. An important first chapter looks at the mathematicians of the period and how mathematics was perceived by people at large. The central chapters of the book analyse sections of the Collection, i...