Ancient geometry: Thinking about how to measure the circle

DOI10.1484/J.ALMA.4.1001MaRDI QIDQ2861045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piedad Yuste

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Almagest (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1484/j.alma.4.1001

zbMATH Keywords

area of a circle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03)

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