Why did the Greeks develop proportion theory? A conjecture

DOI10.1515/9783110565959-008MaRDI QIDQ5376264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henry R. Mendell

Publication date 17 September 2018

Published in Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110565959-008

zbMATH Keywords

proportionratiofractionharmonicsArchimedes' cattle problemsub-unitnuptial numberacrophonic numeralsalphabetic numeralsanthologia Palatinaionic numeralsnumbery theorysexagesimal numerals in Greece

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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