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Pappus of Alexandria: Book 4 of the Collection: Edited With Translation and Commentary by Heike Sefrin-Weis (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by Heike Sefrin-Weis, 2010-06-09
Pappus of Alexandria: Book 7 of the Collection
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Serafina Cuomo, 2007-06-21
Les trois livres de porismes d'Euclide, rétablis pour la première fois, d'après la notice et les lemmes de Pappus, et conformément au sentiment de R. Simon ... de ces propositions; (French Edition) by Euclid Euclid, 2010-05-14
Pappus of Alexandria
Selections Illustrating The History Of Greek Mathematical Works..2 Volume Set..Vol. 1:Thales To Euclid:Vol.2:Aristarchus To Pappus Of Alexandria...Loeb Classical Library
Les Trois Livres De Porismes D'euclide, Retablis Pour La Premiere Fois, D'apres La Notice Et Les Lemmes De Pappus, Et Conformement Au Sentiment De R. Simon ... De Ces Propositions; (French Edition) by Euclid, Pappus of Alexandria, 2010-10-13
Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis quae supersunt e libris manu scriptis edidit Latina interpretatione e by of Alexandria Pappus, 1876-01-01
Book 7 of the Collection by of Alexandria (trans. by Alexander Jones) Pappus, 1986-01-01
Les Trois Livres De Porismes D'euclide; (French Edition) by Euclid, Pappus of Alexandria, 2010-09-28
Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis Quae Supersunt E Libris Manu Scriptis Edidit Latina Interpretatione E, Volume 1 (Latin Edition)
Problem of Apollonius: Problem of Apollonius, Euclidean Geometry, Circle, Tangent, Apollonius of Perga, Pappus of Alexandria, Adriaan van Roomen, Hyperbola
On the duplication of the cube in Pappus of Alexandria (IIIrd century A.D.) (Rapport / SeÌminaires de matheÌmatique pure) by E EÌtienne, 1978
Pappus of Alexandria Book 7 Part 2 Only by Alexander Jones, 1986

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VisitMaldives - Nation Of Islands
For example pappus of alexandria (about the end of the 4th century (AD) says, It(Taprobane) is one of the largest islands of the world, being 1,100 miles in
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Extractions: The history of the Maldives is lost in antiquity. Very little information is available on the ancient people and their way of life. The late H.C.P. Bell, a British archeologist states: "Indeed it may be preferable to assign to the original colonization of the group of dates synchronic with that of Ceylon itself (Viz., several centuries before the Christian era)". The Maldives was certainly known among some of the classical writers. For example Pappus of Alexandria (about the end of the 4th century (A.D) says, "It (Taprobane) is one of the largest islands of the world, being 1,100 miles in length by 1,500 miles broad and encompasses 1,370 adjacent islands among its dependencies. About the same time as Pappus of Alexandria, Scholasticu, the Theban who was visiting India in the company of a priest, and reached Muziris (Cranganore) on the Malabar coast, mentioned about a thousand islands, Maniolae and the loadstone rocks that attracted iron-bound vessels to their destruction.
University Of Pittsburgh: Department Of Mathematics
This ancient proof has been lost, unless it was the proof presented a few centurieslater by pappus of alexandria in the preface to his fifth book.
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Extractions: R. Weaire was writing a book on sphere packings when I finished the proof of the Kepler conjecture, and we began to correspond. Under his influence, I turned to the planar version of the foam problem. This problem goes back over 2000 years. What is the most efficient partition of the plane into equal areas? The honeycomb conjecture asserts that the answer is the regular hexagonal honeycomb. Around 36 BC, the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro wrote a book on agriculture in which he discusses the hexagonal form of the bee's honeycomb. There were two competing theories of the hexagonal structure. One theory held that the hexagons better accommodated the bee's six feet. The other theory, supported by the mathematicians of the day, was that the structure was explained by the isoperimetric property of the hexagonal honeycomb. Varro writes, ``Does not the chamber in the comb have six angles
Eratosthenes
a star catalog. His mathematical work is known principally from thewritings of pappus of alexandria. After study in Alexandria
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Extractions: Eratosthenes After study in Alexandria and Athens, Eratosthenes settled in Alexandria about 255 BC and became director of the great library there. He worked out a calendar that included leap years, and he tried to fix the dates of literary and political events since the siege of Troy. His writings include a poem inspired by astronomy, as well as works on the theatre and on ethics. Eratosthenes was afflicted by blindness in his old age, and he is said to have committed suicide by voluntary starvation.
Pappus' Theorem
Pappus Theorem. pappus of alexandria was a Greek mathematician who lived aroundthe end of the third century AD, although the exact date is uncertain.
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Extractions: Pappus' Theorem Pappus of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician who lived around the end of the third century AD, although the exact date is uncertain. Theon made a marginal note in one of his manuscripts stating that Pappus wrote during the reign of Roman emperor Diocletian, which places him in the period from 284 to 305 AD, but it also seems from Pappus' commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest that he witnessed a particular solar eclipse that occurred in 320 AD In any case, the "Collection" (Synagoge) of Pappus is an invaluable source of information on Greek mathematics, since it contains summaries and attributions of results based on ancient works that have subsequently been lost. In addition, Pappus gave some apparently original results, such as the proposition that is commonly called "Pappus' Theorem" involving a hexagon inscribed between two lines. Consider two straight lines emanating from point O and containing the points P through P as shown in the figure below. Letting L ij denote the line through points P i and P j , and letting a,b,c denote the points of intersection between the pairs of lines [L ,L ], [L
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A Civilization Is Like A Great River Flowing Through Time
2. pappus of alexandria, hurry up, unfortunately the great age ofGreek mathematics is drawing its last breath. Fitzgerald made
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Extractions: A civilization is like a great river flowing through time, nourished and strengthened by many rich tributaries from other cultures. Let us project our imagination backward to a few thousand years. We are invited by the mathematics society of Greece, the birthplace of many mythical gods. We ask them a simple question: "Who created mathematics?" They respond "Mathematics begins with this half-mythical figure of Pythagoras. Science Begins with him. Western philosophy begins with him. He is even the first to use the word mathematike . Before him there was only mathemata, which meant knowledge or learning in general." There is no royal road to geometry. The only way to a knowledge of geometry is a set of 13 books, 465 propositions, and 5 postulates. A point is that which has no part. A line is breathless length. A straight line is a line which lies evenly with the point on itself. A unit is that by virtue of which each of the things that exist is called one. A number is a multitude composed of units.
Alexander Jones's Publications
pappus of alexandria. Book 7 of the Collection. Articles, pappus of alexandria,Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Ptolemaic System.
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Extractions: (with M. W. Haslam, F. Maltomini, M. L. West, and others) The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume LXV. London, 1998. Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 85. 212 pp. Ptolemy's first commentator . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 80.7. Philadelphia, 1990. An Eleventh-century manual of Arabo-Byzantine astronomy . Corpus des astronomes byzantins, 3. Amsterdam (Gieben), 1987. Pappus of Alexandria. Book 7 of the Collection . Edited with translation and commentary by Alexander Jones. Sources in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, 8. 2 vols. Berlin (Springer Verlag), 1986. Articles The Astrologers of Oxyrhynchus and Their Astronomy. Forthcoming in Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts Astronomy after Ptolemy. Forthcoming in
Lecture Notes 2 - Math 3210
Lecture Notes 2. pappus of alexandria (340 AD) Pappus Theorem Ifpoints A,B and C are on one line and A , B and C are on another
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Extractions: Lecture Notes 2 Pappus of Alexandria (340 A.D.) Pappus' Theorem: If points A,B and C are on one line and A', B' and C' are on another line then the points of intersection of the lines AC' and CA', AB' and BA', and BC' and CB' lie on a common line called the Pappus line of the configuration. Axioms for the Finite Geometry of Pappus There exists at least one line. Every line has exactly three points. Not all lines are on the same point. [N.B. Change from the text] If a point is not on a given line, then there exists exactly one line on the point that is parallel to the given line. If P is a point not on a line, there exists exactly one point P' on the line such that no line joins P and P'. With the exception in Axiom 5, if P and Q are distinct points, then exactly one line contains both of them. Theorem 1.10 Each point in the geometry of Pappus lies on exactly three lines. Pf . Let X be any point. By corrected axiom 3, there is a line not containing X. This line contains points A,B,C [Axiom 2]. X lies on lines meeting two of these points, say B and C [Axiom 5]. There is exactly one line through X parallel to BC [Axiom 4]. There can be no other line through X since by Axiom 4 it would have to meet BC at a point other than A, B or C [Axioms 6 and 5], and this would contradict Axiom 2. Pappus geometry has 9 points and 9 lines.
Eratosthenes Of Cyrene
great accuracy and compiled a star catalog. His mathematical workis known principally from the writings of pappus of alexandria.
http://www.kat.gr/kat/history/Greek/Sc/Eratosthenes.htm

Extractions: d. c. 194, Alexandria, Egypt Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet, the first man known to have calculated the Earth's circumference. At Syene (now Aswan), some 800 km (500 miles) southeast of Alexandria in Egypt, the Sun's rays fall vertically at noon at the summer solstice. Eratosthenes noted that at Alexandria, at the same date and time, sunlight fell at an angle of about 7 from the vertical. He correctly assumed the Sun's distance to be very great; its rays therefore are practically parallel when they reach the Earth. Given estimates of the distance between the two cities, he was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth. The exact length of the units (stadia) he used is doubtful, and the accuracy of his result is therefore uncertain; it may have varied by 0.5 to 17 percent from the value accepted by modern astronomers. He also measured the degree of obliquity of the ecliptic (in effect, the tilt of the Earth's axis) with great accuracy and compiled a star catalog. His mathematical work is known principally from the writings of Pappus of Alexandria. After study in Alexandria and Athens, Eratosthenes settled in Alexandria about 255 Bc and became director of the great library there. He worked out a calendar that included leap years, and he tried to fix the dates of literary and political events since the siege of Troy. His writings include a poem inspired by astronomy, as well as works on the theatre and on ethics. Eratosthenes was afflicted by blindness in his old age, and he is said to have committed suicide by voluntary starvation.
Euclid
In ancient times, commentaries were written by Hero of Alexandria (fl. c. AD 62),pappus of alexandria (fl. c. AD 320), Proclus, and Simplicius of Cilicia (fl.
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Extractions: flourished c. 300 BC , Alexandria, Egypt Greek Eukleides the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements Life Of Euclid's life nothing is known except what the Greek philosopher Proclus (c. AD BC Elements BC Sources and contents of the Elements Euclid compiled his Elements from a number of works of earlier men. Among these are Hippocrates of Chios (fl. c. 460 BC BC BC ). The older elements were at once superseded by Euclid's and then forgotten. For his subject matter Euclid doubtless drew upon all his predecessors, but it is clear that the whole design of his work was his own, culminating in the construction of the five regular solids, now known as the Platonic solids. A brief survey of the Elements BC ). While Book V can be read independently of the rest of the Elements arithmos antanaresis (now known as the Euclidean algorithm), for finding the greatest common divisor of two or more numbers; Book VIII examines numbers in continued proportions, now known as geometric sequences (such as a x a x a x a x ); and Book IX proves that there are an infinite number of primes.
3960. Archimedes. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996
Quoted in Mathematical Collection, book VIII, proposition 10, section 11,pappus of alexandria (date unknown); translated into Latin (1588).
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LookSmart - Directory - Ancient Mathematics
History of Mathematics pappus of alexandria Find a biographical sketch of Pappus,a 4th-century mathematician and author of the geometry treatise, The
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285 A.D.
The only mathematician of any importance alive, Sporus of Nicaea, isbest know for being a teacher of pappus of alexandria. Sporus
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Extractions: 285 A.D. In the year 285 B.C., there was not much work done in mathematics. The only mathematician of any importance alive, Sporus of Nicaea, is best know for being a teacher of Pappus of Alexandria. Sporus was about forty-five years old at the time, and would die fifteen years later. All that is known about Sporus comes from the writings of Pappus. He was a professor at the University of Alexandria and his primary interest was solving the problems of the duplication of the cube and the quadrature of the circle. Some of the methods that Sporus used resemble the theory behind integration. Sporus also wrote critiques of other mathematicians works on these problems. Astronomy was another science that caught Sporus attention and he worked on calculating the size on the sun and various comets. Because of his teaching ability and work on these problems, Pappus held Sporus in high esteem and described him as having an excellent reputation among his colleagues. Author : Tim Lucas References:
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.03.31
Serafina Cuomo, pappus of alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity. SerafinaCuomo, pappus of alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity.
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Extractions: As it is typically practiced today, the history of ancient Greek mathematics is a history of results and the resources or techniques used to get them, and, when its practitioners do attempt to write about the historical circumstances of the ideas they study, too often they fallaciously confuse their logical reconstructions with past realia . The reason for this, I suspect, is not just that many of the source materials available lack any information about their authors and settingsand so by their nature would seem to direct our attention to results and deductive structure alonebut that many historians of mathematics have not fully separated their subject from mathematics proper. Fortunately, there are recent signs of a major change in how the history of Greek mathematics is to be written. Reviel Netz, for instance, has brought to light valuable information about the cognitive practices constituting what it meant to do mathematics in antiquity by paying close attention to the language in which ancient mathematical argumentation is expressed and the role of diagrams. Serafina Cuomo would have us move even farther from previous work in the field by interpreting ancient mathematical output as a product of human activity with intellectual and social agendas and contexts. The work she analyzes in her excellent book is the
Who Was Who In Roman Times: Data On Persons: Pappus Of Alexandria
Sponsored links Data on Persons. pappus of alexandria. Function Scientist Sex Male, Synonym(s) Pappus. No parents found. No spouse/wife/partner found.
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The Beginnings Of Trigonometry
pappus of alexandria, who was a teacher of mathema tics in the fourth century, observedthat Hipparchus in his book on the rising of the twelve signs of the
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Extractions: Rutgers, Spring 2000 The ancient Greeks transformed trigonometry into an ordered science. Astronomy was the driving force behind advancements in trigonometry. Most of the early advancements in trigonometry were in spherical trigonometry mostly because of its application to astronomy. The three main figures that we know of in the development of Greek trigonometry are Hipparchus, Menelaus, and Ptolomy. There were likely other contributors but over time their works have been loss and their names have been forgotten. "Even if he did not invent it, Hipparchus is the first person of whose systematic use of trigonometry we have documentary evidence." (Heath 257) Some historians go as far as to say that he invented trigonometry. Not much is known about the life of Hipp archus. It is believed that he was born at Nicaea in Bithynia. (Sarton 285) The town of Nicaea is now called Iznik and is situated in northwestern Turkey. Founded in the 4th century BC, Nicaea lies on the eastern shore of Lake Iznik. He is one of the g reatest astronomers of all time. We know from Ptolemy's references that he made astronomical observations from 161 to 127 BC. (Sarton 285) Unfortunately, nearly all of his works are lost, and all that remains is his commentary on the Phainomena of Eudoxos of Cnidos, and a commentary on an astronomical poem by Aratos of Soloi. (Sarton 285) Most of what we know about Hipparchus comes from Ptolemy's
The Great Library Of Alexandria
pappus of alexandria, who lived around the time of Roman emperor Theodosius, wasthe last of the great Greek geometers and one of his theorems is cited as the
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Extractions: G reek was the official language of Ptolemaic Egypt and though Egyptians continued to form the overwhelming majority of the population of the countryside, Alexandria was different. Peoples from many lands settled there and most newcomers eventually adopted Greek, the lingua franca of the whole eastern Mediterranean and beyond. Even those groups known for the conservative retention of other aspects of their culture, notably the Jews, forgot their native tongues and learned Greek. A t the Great Library Greek translations were commissioned as a matter of course. Aristeas, writing one hundred years after the Library's inception, records that Ptolemy I Soter handed over to Demetrius of Phaleron, a former pupil of Aristotle, the job of gathering books and scrolls, as well as letting him supervise a massive effort to translate the most important works of other cultures into Greek. This process began with the translation of Old Testament, for which project the library hired and housed seventy-two rabbis to produce its famous namesake, the Septuagint.
Religion Detoxification Web Guide
Some notable Egyptians in the field were Paul of Alexandria; Hephaestionof Thebes; Palchus; pappus of alexandria; Theon of Alexandria;
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Extractions: "Hathor," Goddess of Love, Music, and Beauty She was the celestial cow or sky goddess; patron of sky, sun, music, dance, art, and the mother-goddess of the whole world. She was worshipped throughout all of Egypt. Her philosophical teaching center was at Dendera in Upper Egypt. Her name means "House of Horus." When you read about Origen of Alexandria later on, you should also be aware that his name, Origen, means "born of Horus." In Hathor's temple, a large hypostyle hall was added in the 1st century CE by the Roman Emperor Tiberius. The ceiling of the hall, which retains much of its original color, is decorated as a complex and carefully aligned symbolic chart divided into seven bands of the heavens including "Signs" of the Zodiac; which were introduced by the Romans. The walls of this hall are adorned with scenes of Roman emperors (as pharaohs) making offerings to Hathor.
Introductory Essay
3 vols. Berlin, 18761878. Jones pappus of alexandria. Book 7 of the Collection.Ed. and trans. Alexander Jones. 2 vols. New York Springer, 1986.
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Extractions: Bibliography and Acknowledgements (this file) [Eecke] Pappus d'Alexandrie. tr. Paul Ver Eecke. 2 vols. (consecutive pagination). Paris, 1933. Reprint, Paris: Blanchard, 1982. [Gardies 1991] Gardies, J.-L. "La proposition 14 du livre V dans l'économie des Eléments d'Euclide." Revue d'histoire des sciences [Hultsch] Pappus. Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis quae supersunt. ed. and trans. F. Hultsch. 3 vols. Berlin, 1876-1878. [Jones] Pappus of Alexandria. Book 7 of the Collection. Ed. and trans. Alexander Jones. 2 vols. New York: Springer, 1986. [Mueller 1981]Mueller, Ian. Philosophy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid's `Elements' . Cambridge, Mass.:The MIT Press.
Sciences Et Techniques - Astronomie, Cosmologie, Astrologie, Mathématiques
Translate this page New York, 1960. Cuomo S., pappus of alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity,Cambridge UP, 2000, 234 p. (Cambridge Classical Studies). CR BMCR.
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