On the cattle problem of Archimedes

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1995.1017MaRDI QIDQ1899006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William C. Waterhouse

Publication date 1995

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/92284743a237f139e33662605f9f75097b518baa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

By a careful inspection of the Greek text, the author refutes \textit{P. Schreiber's} claim of the unsolvability of Archimedes' cattle problem in Hist. Math. 20, No. 3, 304-306 (1993; Zbl 0786.01003).

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