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jman_red
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 Aug-12-02, 09:25 PM (EST)
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"Ancient Matheticians"
 
   I was wondering if anyone could provide some information on historical mathematical figures beginning with Euclid, or even before.

Thanks, any help is appreciated

jman_red


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alexb
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1. "RE: Ancient Matheticians"
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   One place to look into would be MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive:

https://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/


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Nikhil
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 Aug-13-02, 07:33 AM (EST)
 
2. "RE: Ancient Matheticians"
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   Hi,
I case you are interested in ancient Indian Mathematicians,
You could look into this one :

<https://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Indians.html>


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Samuele
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 Aug-15-02, 02:29 PM (EST)
 
3. "RE: Ancient Matheticians"
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   I think you already know it...
There is an old good book "History of Mathematics" by Carl B. Boyer, with a huge bibliography and many informations. In its initial chapters you can find quite evrything about ancient mathematicians, or, at least, where to search.

Sam.


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NJZ
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 Aug-16-02, 12:59 PM (EST)
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4. "RE: Ancient Matheticians"
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   Hi jman_red, if you are interested in learning about historical mathematicians you should definitely read E.T. Bell's classic book Men of Mathematics. It doesn't have much about the ancients, although the second chapter talks about Zeno, Eudoxus, and Archimedes. The following chapters outline the lives and accomplishments of the Western world's greatest mathematicians from the 1600's through the early 1900's. The MacTutor History of Mathematics website (https://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html) has hundreds of brief biographies of great mathematicians and scientists from throughout the world, and has listings for a number of the other Greeks (such as Euclid and Pythagoras). Sorry I don't know of any good books specifically about mathematicians of the ancient world, but hopefully you will find these two references enlightening.

Regards,

NJZ


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