The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archime... » 

The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. Reviel Netz offers a radically new interpretation of the historical journey of pre-modernmathematics. «