Ratio in early Greek mathematics

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14684-6zbMath0425.01002MaRDI QIDQ3859747

D. H. Fowler

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

theory of ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to number theory (11-04) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Related Items (11)

On square roots and their representations ⋮ Book II of Euclid's elements and a pre-Eudoxan theory of ratio ⋮ La Définition V. 8 desElémentsd'Euclide* ⋮ Integral medial axis and the distance between closest points ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ A pre-Euclidean theory of proportions ⋮ Number theory of the Greeks. I: Euclid's fundamental theorem of arithmetics ⋮ Eratosthenes on the ``Measurement of the Earth ⋮ The conceptual design of the Octagon at Thessaloniki ⋮ Analysis of PSLQ, an integer relation finding algorithm ⋮ Abraham J. Sachs (1914--1983): in memoriam

Cites Work

• Book II of Euclid's Elements and a pre-Eudoxan theory of ratio. II. Sides and diameters
• Archimedes and the measurement of the circle: a new interpretation
• On continued fractions and finite automata
• On the sum and product of continued fractions
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