1. Biography Of Pappus Of Alexandria Wrote treatise, the Mathematical Collection, as a guide to Greek geometry, discusses theorems and constructions of more than thirty different mathematicians of antiquity. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/science/parshall/pappus.html

Biography of Pappus of Alexandria Pappus of Alexandria flourished in the first half of the fourth century. He wrote his treatise, the Mathematical Collection , as a guide to Greek geometry. Here Pappus discusses theorems and constructions of more than thirty different mathematicians of antiquity, including Euclid , Archimedes and Ptolemy. Sometimes, as in the case of the problem of inscribing the five regular solids in a given sphere, Pappus provides alternatives to the proofs given in earlier works. In other cases, he generalizes theorems of earlier writers, as he does with the Pythagorean Theorem found in Euclid's Elements MAIN DOCUMENT CONTENTS FIRST MENTION To return to place in document from which you came, click on your browser's BACK BUTTON. Selected Biographical References Gillispie, Charles C. ed. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography , 16 vols. 2 supps. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970-1990. S.v. "Pappus of Alexandria" by Ivor Bulmer-Thomas. Heath, Thomas L. A History of Greek Mathematics , 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1921. 1:355-439.

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Next: About this document March 3, 1997 Pappus of Alexandria (fl. c. 300-c. 350) Very little is known of Pappus' life. Moreover, very little is known of what his actual contributions were. We do know that he recorded in one of his commentaries on the Almagest that he observed a solar eclipse on October 18, 320. He is regarded, though, as the last great mathematician of the Helenistic Age. He wrote The Collection or The Synagogue , a treatise on geometry which we discuss here and several commentaries, now all lost except for some fragments in Greek or Arabic. One of the commentaries, we note from Proclus, was on The Elements Note that higher geometry was in complete abeyance until Pappus. From his descriptions, we may surmise that either the classical works were lost or forgotten. His task is to `restore' geometry to a place of significance. Basically, The Collection or The Synagogue is a treatise on Geometry, which included everything of interest to him. Whatever explanations or supplements to the works of the great geometers seemed to him necessary, he formulated them as lemmas. Features: It is very broad, designed to revive classical geometry.

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5. History Of Mathematics: Alexandria Alexandria. Mathematicians. Euclid ( c. 300 B.C.E) Hypsicles. Heron. Menelaus. Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (C.E. 100178) Diophantus. pappus of alexandria (c. 320) Theon. Hypatia of Alexandria (c . http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/alexandria.html

Alexandria Mathematicians Euclid (c. 300 B.C.E) Hypsicles Heron Menelaus Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (C.E. 100-178) Diophantus Pappus of Alexandria (c. 320) Theon Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370-415) References on the Web Alaa K. Ashmawy's Alexandria page including much information on Alexandria's history Ellen N. Brundige's article on the Library of Alexandria Bibliography Davis, H. T. Alexandria, the golden city. 2 volumes. Principia Press of Illinois, Evanston, 1957. Parsons, Edward Alexander The Alexandrian library, glory of the Hellenic world; its rise, antiquities, and destructions. Elsevier, Amsterdam-New York, 1952. Regional mathematics Subjects Books and other resources Chronology ... Home

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Pappus of Alexandria Born: about 290 in Alexandria, Egypt Died: about 350 Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Pappus of Alexandria is the last of the great Greek geometers and one of his theorems is cited as the basis of modern projective geometry Our knowledge of Pappus's life is almost nil. There appear in the literature one or two references to dates for Pappus's life which must be wrong. There is a reference in the Suda Lexicon (a work of a 10 th century Greek lexicographer) which states that Pappus was a contemporary of Theon of Alexandria (see for example [1]):- Pappus, of Alexandria, philosopher, lived about the time of the Emperor Theodosius the Elder AD - AD , when Theon the Philosopher, who wrote the Canon of Ptolemy , also flourished. This would seem convincing but there is a chronological table by Theon of Alexandria which, when being copied, has had inserted next to the name of Diocletian (who ruled 284 AD - 305 AD) "at that time wrote Pappus". Similar insertions give the dates for Ptolemy Hipparchus and other mathematical astronomers.

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Pappus of Alexandria (ca. 290350) Pappus was what we now call a "commentator." Though he was the leading Greek mathematician of his time, the original mathematics he created was very small in both stature and quantity, especially in comparison to the great classical mathematicians such as Euclid Archimedes , and Apollonius. Rather, Pappus' fame lies in his large work called The Collection in which he gathered an eclectic assembly of older works (some now lost) by some of the aforementioned leading authors. In this compendium, he added a considerable number his own explanations and amplifications. The Collection contained eight books, or chapters, each of which could stand as a work by itself. Some of the topics with which Pappus dealt were conics, plane geometry, mechanics, and, of special interest to students of calculus , straight lines tangent to certain curves. In the book dealing with mechanics, Pappus was the first to define the concept of center of gravity. At the end of Book 7, "The Treasury of Analysis" of The Collection

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PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA We can only conjecture that the lost book i., as well as book ii., was concerned with arithmetic, book iii. being clearly introduced as beginning a new subject. The whole of book ii. (the former part of which is lost, the existing fragment beginning in the middle of the 14th proposition) related to a system of multiplication due to Apollonius of Perga. On this subject see Nesselmann, Algebra der Griechen (Berlin, 1842), pp. 125134; and M. Cantor, Gesch. d. Math. i.~ 331. In book v., after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter (following Zenodoruss treatise on this subject), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato. Incidentally Pappus describes the thirteen other polyhedra bounded by equilateral and equiangular but not similar polygons, discovered by Archimedes, and finds, by a method recalling that of Archimedes, the surface and volume of a sphere. According to the preface, book vi. is intended to resolve difficulties occurring in the so-called ~iucpi3c ?wrpoPo/Ao(lpsvol. It accordingly comments on the Sphaerica of Theodosius, the Moving Sphere of Autolycus, Theodosiuss book on Day and Night, the treatise of Aristarchus On the Size and Distances of the Sun and Moon, and Euclids Optics and Phaenomena.

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Pappus of Alexandria Born: about 290 in Alexandria, Egypt Died: about 350 Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Pappus of Alexandria is the last of the great Greek geometers and one of his theorems is cited as the basis of modern projective geometry Our knowledge of Pappus's life is almost nil. There appear in the literature one or two references to dates for Pappus's life which must be wrong. There is a reference in the Suda Lexicon (a work of a 10 th century Greek lexicographer) which states that Pappus was a contemporary of Theon of Alexandria (see for example [1]):- Pappus, of Alexandria, philosopher, lived about the time of the Emperor Theodosius the Elder AD - AD , when Theon the Philosopher, who wrote the Canon of Ptolemy , also flourished. This would seem convincing but there is a chronological table by Theon of Alexandria which, when being copied, has had inserted next to the name of Diocletian (who ruled 284 AD - 305 AD) "at that time wrote Pappus". Similar insertions give the dates for Ptolemy Hipparchus and other mathematical astronomers.

12. Pappus Of Alexandria And The Mathematics Of Late Antiquity This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourthcentury AD mathematician pappus of alexandria, and http://books.cambridge.org/0521642116.htm

Home > Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity Serafina Cuomo Published March 2000 244 pages 12 figures For price and ordering options, inspection copy requests, and reading lists please select: UK North America 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, identifying features typical of Pappus’s mathematical practice. The final chapter draws together the various threads and presents a fuller description of Pappus’s mathematical ‘agenda’. This is one of very few books to deal extensively with the mathematics of Late Antiquity. It sees Pappus’s text as part of a wider context and relates it to other contemporary cultural practices and opens new avenues to research into the public understanding of mathematics and mathematical disciplines in antiquity. Reviews ‘[Cuomo] takes a refreshing approach to the history of mathematics.’

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Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Pappus of Alexandria Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Pappus of Alexandria is one of the most important mathematicians of ancient Greek time, known for his work Synagoge (“Collection”). He was born at Alexandria of Egypt. Although very little is known about his life, the written records suggest he was a teacher. His principal work is known as the Synagoge (c. 340). Comprising of at least eight volumes while the rest were lost, the collection covers a wide range of mathematical topics, including geometry Geometry is the branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships. From experience, or possibly intuitively, people characterize space by certain fundamental qualities, which are termed axioms in geometry. Such axioms are insusceptible of proof, but can be used in conjunction with mathematical definitions for points, straight lines, curves, surfaces, and solids to draw logical conclusions. Click the link for more information. recreational mathematics Recreational mathematics is mathematics for the fun of it. It includes many mathematical games, and can be extended to cover such areas as logic and other puzzles of deductive reasoning. Some of the most interesting problems in this field do not require a knowledge of advanced mathematics.

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17. Pappus Of Alexandria (ca. 260 BC-unknown) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scie pappus of alexandria (ca. 260 BCunknown), Greek mathematician whosecontribution to mathematics was primarily as an encyclopedist. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Pappus.html

Branch of Science Mathematicians Nationality Greek Pappus of Alexandria (ca. 260 BC-unknown) Greek mathematician whose contribution to mathematics was primarily as an encyclopedist. Pappus summarized all of Greek mathematics in the eight volume Mathematical Collection or simply The Collection (ca. 340 BC). In it, he states Pappus's theorem which is also known as the "Guldinus theorem" since Guldin independently rediscovered it. Pappus also derived the theorem that the centers of the circles in a Pappus chain of an arbelos lie on an ellipse Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews)

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