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A History of Greek Mathematics (2 vols.). By Sir Thomas Heath
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This article is published in American Mathematical Monthly.The article was published on 1984-01-01. It has received 37 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Greek mathematics.read more
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From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons: An Introduction to the History of Scientific Thought between Iran and the Atlantic
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a notion of the "price of production" which is mathematically equivalent to what Marx had developed on the foundation of the labour value theory in volume III of Das Kapital (published only in 1894 by Engels) when confronting the problem of real market prices.
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Shaping the Empire : agrimensores, emperors and the creation of the Roman provincial identities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between the agrimensores and the people of the Empire whose lands they surveyed and their influence on the shape of discourse about the Roman Empire.
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Sub-Scientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of the bisection of a trapezium by a parallel transversal has been considered as a recreational problem in the surveyors' environment in the Middle East.
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Historiographie de Paul Tannery et réceptions de son œuvre : sur l'invention du métier d'historien des sciences
TL;DR: Tannery (1843-1904) et al. as discussed by the authors considere, par la communaute des historiens des sciences, comme une de ses figures patrimoniales, c'est deja l'ampleur de sa production historique qui lui vaut cette notoriete, alors qu'il mene toute sa carriere dans les Manufactures de l'Etat.
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From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons: An Introduction to the History of Scientific Thought between Iran and the Atlantic
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a notion of the "price of production" which is mathematically equivalent to what Marx had developed on the foundation of the labour value theory in volume III of Das Kapital (published only in 1894 by Engels) when confronting the problem of real market prices.
Dissertation
Shaping the Empire : agrimensores, emperors and the creation of the Roman provincial identities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between the agrimensores and the people of the Empire whose lands they surveyed and their influence on the shape of discourse about the Roman Empire.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sub-Scientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of the bisection of a trapezium by a parallel transversal has been considered as a recreational problem in the surveyors' environment in the Middle East.
Dissertation
Historiographie de Paul Tannery et réceptions de son œuvre : sur l'invention du métier d'historien des sciences
TL;DR: Tannery (1843-1904) et al. as discussed by the authors considere, par la communaute des historiens des sciences, comme une de ses figures patrimoniales, c'est deja l'ampleur de sa production historique qui lui vaut cette notoriete, alors qu'il mene toute sa carriere dans les Manufactures de l'Etat.