Drowning by multiples. Remarks on the fifth book of Euclid's elements, with special emphasis on prop. 8.
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DOI10.1007/s00407-002-0061-yzbMath1044.01003MaRDI QIDQ1809893
Publication date: 28 October 2003
Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-002-0061-y
01A20: History of Greek and Roman mathematics
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