Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics

Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
Author: Asger Aaboe
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1963
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780883856130

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Among other things, Aaboe shows us how the Babylonians did calculations, how Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes, how Ptolemy constructed a trigonometric table in his Almagest, and how Archimedes trisected the angle.