Pappus of Alexandria - Wikipedia
网页Pappus of Alexandria (/ ˈ p æ p ə s /; Greek: Πάππος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. 290 – c. 350 AD) was a Greek mathematician of late antiquity known for his Synagoge (Συναγωγή) or Collection (c. 340), [1] and for Pappus's hexagon theorem in projective geometry. Almost nothing is known about his life except for what can be ...
Pappus of Alexandria | Greek Mathematician & Ancient Geometer
网页Pappus of Alexandria was the most important mathematical author writing in Greek during the later Roman Empire, known for his Synagoge (“Collection”), a voluminous account of the most important work done in ancient Greek mathematics.
Pappus (290 - 350) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
网页Pappus is the last of the great Greek geometers and one of his theorems is cited as the basis of modern projective geometry. He wrote commentaries on Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Almagest.
Pappus - Encyclopedia.com
网页Pappus (păp´əs), fl. c.300, Greek mathematician of Alexandria. He recorded and enlarged on the results of his predecessors, including Euclid and Apollonius of Perga [1], in his Mathematical Collection (8 books; date conjectural).
Pappus of Alexandria - SpringerLink
网页2023年1月1日 · In many books Pappus is only classified as a second-rate mathematician because he does not arrange the theorems in his books with the same purposefulness as Euclid’s Elements. But in addition to numerous lemmas on Apollonius, Pappus has made original contributions to geometry, which 1200 years later is called projective.
Pappus of Alexandria (ca. 260 BC-unknown) -- from Eric ... - Wolfram
网页Pappus of Alexandria (ca. 260 BC-unknown) Greek mathematician whose contribution to mathematics was primarily as an encyclopedist. Pappus summarized all of Greek mathematics in the eight volume Mathematical Collection or simply The Collection (ca. 340 BC). In it, he states Pappus's theorem, which is also known as …
PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA (XIX) - A History of Greek Mathematics
网页PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA; T. L. Heath; Book: A History of Greek Mathematics; Online publication: 05 October 2014; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139600583.008
Pappus of Alexandria Book 7 of the Collection - Springer
网页The seventh book of Pappus's Collection, his commentary on the Domain (or Treasury) of Analysis, figures prominently in the history of both ancient and modern mathematics: as our chief source of information concerning several lost works of the Greek geometers Euclid and Apollonius, and as a book that inspired later mathematicians, among them ...
Pappus of Alexandria - SpringerLink
网页2016年12月24日 · As reporter of the status quo of the mathematics of his time, it is owing to Pappus that we have the Greeks’ threefold division of problems: (1) solvable with straightedge and compass, called plane; (2) solvable with one or more conics, called solid; and (3) solvable with a more complicated curve, called linear.
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
网页2007年6月21日 · This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria,...