Pappus of Alexandria: References & Edit History

Pappus of Alexandria, Book 7 of the Collection, ed. and trans. by Alexander Jones, 2 vol. (1986), gives an English translation of Pappus’s commentary on the “Treasury of Analysis” facing the Greek text; the introduction contains a thorough survey of Pappus’s life and works. Serafini Cuomo, Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity (1999), is a study of Pappus’s work in its social and intellectual setting. Paul Ver Eecke, Pappus d’Alexandrie: La Collection Mathématique, 2 vol. (1933, reissued 1982), is the only translation of the entire Synagoge into a modern language. Thomas Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, 2 vol. (1921, reprinted 1993), reviews the highlights of Pappus’s mathematics.