Introduction
Dirk J. Struik,Mathematics
Dover Publications 1987-08-01
¥ 783
I A Brief Hist of Math
1. The Greeks Mathematicians
- Thales – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Pythagoras – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Zeno of Elea – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Plato – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Eudoxus of Cnidus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Aristotle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Euclid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Apollonius of Perga – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Archimedes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Hero of Alexandria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Diophantus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Pappus of Alexandria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some old Problems
- Construct a square of area equal to that of a circle of diameter I.
- (Construct = with compass & ruler)
- Construct a cube of volume 2.
- Divide in angle into 3 equal parts