Dýnamis, the Babylonians, and Theaetetus 147c7-148d7

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(90)90001-TzbMath0707.01003MaRDI QIDQ918945

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geometers calculators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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