Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the prac
This book offers a comprehensive study of Diophantos’ Arithmetika, a unique book within the known Greek mathematical corpus whose author, Diophantos, is an enigmatic figure. It details the structure,
In this book the classical Greek construction problems are explored in a didactical, enquiry based fashion using GeoGebra, a dynamic geometry software package. The book traces the history of these pro
