ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Thomas Little Heath

English Civil servant who is best known for his scholarly translations of the Greek classics of mathematics into English.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 5 Oct 1861, Barnetby le Wold, Lincoln, England
• Died: 16 March 1940, Ashtead, Surrey, England

Books and Papers

• 1885: Diophantus of Alexandria: a Study in the History of Greek Algebra
• 1896: Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections
• 1897: Archimedes: Works
• 1908: The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
• 1912: Archimedes: Works (2nd Edition, includes the newly-discovered Method)
• 1913: Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus
• 1921: A History of Greek Mathematics
• 1926: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of The Elements: 2nd Edition
• 1931: A Manual of Greek Mathematics
• 1932: Greek Astronomy
• 1949: Mathematics in Aristotle

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Thomas Little Heath": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive