1. To the Threshold of Greek Mathematics; 2. The Generation of Archytas; 3. The Generation of Archimedes; 4. Mathematics in the World; 5. Mathematics of the Stars; 6. The Canonization of Greek Mathematics; 7. Into Modern Science: The Legacy of Greek Mathematics.
Engaging and comprehensive history of Greek mathematics, with full attention to social contexts and its place in world history.
REVIEL NETZ is Patrick Suppes Professor of Greek Mathematics and Astronomy at Stanford University. He is the author of many books on Greek mathematics and culture, including The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (Cambridge, 1999), The Archimedes Codex (co-authored with William Noel, 2007), Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (Cambridge, 2009) and Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture (Cambridge, 2020).
'This is a brilliant, pioneering, breathtakingly ambitious book,
written with passion, wit and gusto, a veritable joy to read.
Composed by the foremost world expert on Archimedes, it offers new
perspectives not just on Greek mathematics but on its significance
for our understanding of the rise of Western science as a whole. To
this end it brings to bear an extraordinary range of material from
non-Greek as well as Greek sources and develops original arguments
concerning the fundamental question of why and how Western science
developed in the way it did.' Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Professor of
Ancient Philosophy and Science, University of Cambridge
'As a brilliant successor to Heath's A New History of Greek
Mathematics of a century earlier, Netz's New History, rather than
providing a detailed chronology of the field, tells a compelling
story that fits Greek mathematics into the history of the world.
The reader will not only learn about the predecessors of the
Greeks, but also gain an appreciation of the immense influence
Greek mathematics had on the scientific revolution of the
seventeenth century and the industrial revolution of the eighteenth
century. In between, of course, Netz provides detailed insights
into how Greek scholars from Hipparchus to Eutocius developed the
concepts that stand at the basis of modern mathematics.' Victor
Katz, Professor Emeritus of Ancient Mathematics, University of the
District of Columbia
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