Greek Mathematical Works, vol I : Thales to Euclid

I. From Thales to Euclid. With an english translation by Ivor Thomas.

The wonderful achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I contains: The divisions of mathematics, mathematics in Greek education - calculation -  arithmetical notation and operations, including square root and cube root - Pythagorean arithmetic, including properties of numbers -  square root of 2 -  proportion and means - algebraic equations - Proclus - Thales -  Pythagorean geometry - Democritus -  Hippocrates of Chios - duplicating the cube and squaring the circle -  trisecting angles - Theaetetus - Plato -  Eudoxus of Cnidus (pyramid, cone, etc.) -  Aristotle (the infinite, the lever) - Euclid.