Hero and the tradition of the circle segment

DOI10.1007/s00407-023-00308-yzbMath1522.01009OpenAlexW4385216968MaRDI QIDQ6171825

Henry Mendell

Publication date: 16 August 2023

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-023-00308-y

zbMATH Keywords

Babylonian mathematicsEgyptian mathematicsarea of circle segment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History of geometry (51-03) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

Cites Work

• Techniques of fractions in ancient Egypt and Greece
• Archimedes and the Elements: Proposal for a revised chronological ordering of the Archimedean Corpus
• Square root approximations in Old Babylonian mathematics: YBC 7289 in context
• On dating Hero of Alexandria
• The Logical Syntax of Greek Mathematics
• Lengths, widths, surfaces. A portrait of Old Babylonian algebra and its kin
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