A study of the problems, principles, and procedures that mathematics has inherited from antiquity, this book both instructs and delights. Written by a specialis... » 

A study of the problems, principles, and procedures that mathematics has inherited from antiquity, this book both instructs and delights. Written by a specialist in interpreting science for lay readers, it recounts the human story behind mathematics, focusing on the insights of such thinkers as Euclid and Hippocrates. Dover unabridged republication of The Bequest of the Greeks, published by Scribner in 1955. «