EAGLE-GUIDE Von Pythagoras bis Ptolemaios: Mathematik in der Antike

by Hans Wussing, Hans Wussing

EAGLE-GUIDE Von Pythagoras bis Ptolemaios

70 pages, Paperback

First published September 13, 2012

About the author

Hans-Ludwig Wußing (October 15, 1927 in Waldheim – April 26, 2011 in Leipzig) was a German historian of mathematics and science. Wussing is the author of numerous scientific historical publications, the author of many mathematicians' biographies, and co-editor of several series of publications, including biographies in the Teubner Verlag, and several volumes in the series Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (Ostwald's Classics of the Exact Sciences), in particular on Euler's work on functional theory, Gauss's diary, and Felix Klein's Erlangen program. In 1993 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize.