Important Background Topics
Greek Mathematics:
Thales
(ca. 625 - 547 BCE)
Commensurability
Pythagoras
(ca. 580 - 500 BCE)
Eudoxus
(ca. 408 - 355 BCE)
Euclid
(ca. 300 BCE)
Eculid's Book VI
Archimedes
(ca. 287 - 212 BCE)