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The Treatment of Arithmetic Progressions by Archimedes
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 16:2
- Publication Year :
- 1897
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1897.
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Abstract
- The following paper was written last summer, and was submitted to Dr Mackay with a view to eliciting his opinion particularly on the curious passage referred to in § 3, and on the remarks contained in § 8. I was not aware of the intention of Mr T. L. Heath to follow up his excellent edition of Apollonius by an edition of Archimedes on similar lines, and when I saw the announcement of his Archimedes in the month of October, I at once concluded that the notes I had made would have been anticipated by him. Since reading his masterly work, however, I am disposed to think there is still sufficient interest in the notes I have written to justify me in laying them before the Society; I therefore submit them in their original form, although I should have omitted certain details had I been acquainted with Mr Heath's work before writing the paper.
Details
- ISSN :
- 14643839 and 00130915
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........90913c1af88495c791a2089040a83bc6