This book provides a way to understand a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests on a close ...

The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the ...

Apollonius of Perga, who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician known for his work on ...