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1854–1923 England
James Gow (1854-1923) was an English scholar, educator, historian, and author, widely recognized for A Short History of Greek Mathematics. The history drew highly upon the work of Moritz Cantor, as well as upon pioneering works of Carl Anton Bretschneider, Hermann Hankel, and George Johnston Allman, but included material, e.g., gematria, not discussed by contemporary historians of mathematics.
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The history of Alexandrian mathematics begins with the Elements of Euclid and closes with the Algebra of Diophantus, both of which are founded on the discoveries of several preceding centuries.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
With Diophantus the history of Greek arithmetic comes to an end. No original work, that we know of, was done afterwards.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
My aim is... to place before a young student a nucleus of well-ordered knowledge, to which he is to add intelligent notes and illustrations from his daily reading.
A Companion to School Classics (1888)
The bones... are given in a heap to a student who has no idea of a skeleton. Here is the defect which I am trying partly to supply...
A Companion to School Classics (1888)
Officials could be removed during their year of office by vote of the ecclesia, and periodical opportunities were given for raising complaints...
A Companion to School Classics (1888)
A student of history, who cares little for Greek or mathematics in particular, but who likes to watch how things grow, will be able to extract from these pages a notion of the whole history of mathematical science down to Newton's time...
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
Probably Greek logistic, or calculation, extended to more difficult operations... and... probably Greek arithmetic, or theory of numbers, owed much more to induction than is permitted to appear by its first and chief professors.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
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