Dover Publications, Incorporated, Date: 1981. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1981. Dover Publications, Incorporated ISBN 0486240746 9780486240749 [US]

ISBN10: 0486240746, ISBN13: 9780486240749, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. ""As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival."" - Times Literary Supplement""Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English historian of the ancient exact sciences in the twentieth century."" - Prof. W. H. Stahl""Indeed, seeing that so much of Greek is mathematics, it is arguable that, if one would understand the Greek genius fully, it would be a good plan to begin with their geometry.""The perspective that enabled Sir Thomas Heath to understand the Greek genius - deep intimacy with languages, literatures, philosophy, and all the sciences - brought him perhaps closer to his beloved subjects, and to their own ideal of educated men than is common or even possible today. Heath read the original texts with a critical, scrupulous eye and brought to this definitive two-volume history the insights of a mathematician communicated with the clarity of classically taught English.""Of all the manifestations of the Greek genius none is more impressive and even awe-inspiring than that which is revealed by the history of Greek mathematics."" Heath records that history with the scholarly comprehension and comprehensiveness that marks this work as obviously classic now as when it first appeared in 1921. The linkage and unity of mathematics and philosophy suggest the ...
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ISBN10: 0486240746, ISBN13: 9780486240749, [publisher: Dover Pubns] Softcover 2nd edition. 608 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1981]

ISBN10: 0486240746, ISBN13: 9780486240749, [publisher: Dover Pubns] Softcover 2nd edition. 608 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1981]