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Hypatia of Alexandria : mathematician and martyr
- Title
- Hypatia of Alexandria : mathematician and martyr / Michael A.B. Deakin.
- Author
- Deakin, Michael A. B., 1939-
- Publication
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
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- Description
- 231 p., 4 p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
- Contents
- The historical context -- The intellectual background -- The religious background. Christianity ; Neoplatonism ; The doctrine of the Trinity -- The sources -- The details of Hypatia's life -- Hypatia's work, attitudes and life-style -- Hypatia's death -- Hypatia's philosophy -- Hypatia's mathematics. Background and sources ; Book III of the Almagest ; Books IV-XIII of the Almagest ; Apollonius' Conics ; The astronomical Canon ; The arithmetic of Diophantus ; The astrolabe ; The "hydroscope" ; Other work -- Evaluation -- Appendix A. Mathematical details. Number representation and long division ; Conic sections ; Diophantine analysis ; Stereographic projection -- Appendix B. Pandrosion -- Appendix C. The legend of St Catherine of Alexandria -- Appendix D. Translations of the primary sources. The Suda, Hesychius, and Damascius ; Socrates scholaticus ; John of Nikiu ; Synesius of Cyrene ; Miscellaneous.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-6162
- ISBN
- 9781591025207 (alk. paper)
- 1591025206 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001588
- OCLC
- 78791004
- Author
- Deakin, Michael A. B., 1939-
- Title
- Hypatia of Alexandria : mathematician and martyr / Michael A.B. Deakin.
- Imprint
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6162