Why did the Greeks develop proportion theory? A conjecture

DOI10.1515/9783110565959-008zbMATH Open1401.01011OpenAlexW4212903506MaRDI QIDQ5376264FDOQ5376264

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

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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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