Author: Simon, Maximilian.
Title: Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum : Vorlesungen, in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte, über die Entwicklung der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Ägypten, Mesopotamien, Indien, Hellas und in der hellenistischen Welt.
Description: Mit Autorenregister. Amsterdam : Philo Press, 1973. Neudruck Berlin 1909 Ausgabe. Paperback. xvii,420 pp, num. figs, 6 plates. 23x15 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : new. - Main work on the history of mathematics in the antiquity by Maximilian Simon (1844-1918), a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. Born into a Jewish family, he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer. He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871, and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he became an honorary professor of the university of Strasbourg. ISBN 9789060222058.

Keywords: CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, classical antiquity; history of science; mathematics;