Table of Contents

1. Babylonian mathematics; 2. Early Greek mathematics and Euclid's construction of the regular pentagon; 3. Three samples of Archimedean mathematics; 4. Ptolemy's construction of a trigonometric table.

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Essential mathematics as discovered by the Babylonians and Greeks.

About the Author

Asger Aaboe received his PhD degree from Brown University in 1957. He taught mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, at Tufts University and at Birkerod Statsskole in Denmark. Aaboe went on to be Associate Professor of Mathematics and History of Science at Yale University.