It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises of Archimedes and Apollonius, they make little attempt to describe the procedure by which the results are obtained. I have therefore taken pains, in the most significant cases, to show the course of the argument in sufficient detail to enable a competent mathematician to grasp the method used and to apply it, if he will, to other similar investigations.


A History of Greek Mathematics (1921) Vol. 1. From Thales to Euclid

Thomas Little Heath Quotes

It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises...

It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises...

It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises...

It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises...