A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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ISOPERIMETRIC FIGURES. ZENODORUS 207<br />
themselves, so that, while they got a reputation for greater<br />
honesty, they in fact <strong>to</strong>ok more than their share <strong>of</strong> the<br />
produce. 1 Several remarks <strong>by</strong> ancient authors show the<br />
prevalence <strong>of</strong> the same misconception. Thucydides estimates<br />
the size <strong>of</strong> Sicily according <strong>to</strong> the time required for circumnavigating<br />
it. 2 About 130 B.C. Polybius observed that there<br />
were people who could not understand that camps <strong>of</strong> the same<br />
periphery might have different capacities. 3 Quintilian has a<br />
similar remark, and Can<strong>to</strong>r thinks he may have had in his<br />
mind the calculations <strong>of</strong> Pliny, who compares the size <strong>of</strong><br />
different parts <strong>of</strong> the earth <strong>by</strong> adding their lengths <strong>to</strong> their<br />
breadths. 4<br />
208 SUCCESSORS OF THE GREAT GEOMETERS<br />
area. Zenodorus's treatise was not confined <strong>to</strong> propositions<br />
about plane figures, but gave also the theorem that Of all<br />
solid figures the surfaces <strong>of</strong> which are equal, the sphere is<br />
greatest in solid content.<br />
We will briefly indicate Zenodorus's method <strong>of</strong> pro<strong>of</strong>. To<br />
begin with (1)<br />
; let ABC, DEFhe equilateral and equiangular<br />
polygons <strong>of</strong> the same perimeter, DEF having more angles<br />
than ABC. Let G, H be the centres <strong>of</strong> the circumscribing<br />
circles, GK, HL the perpendiculars <strong>from</strong> G, H <strong>to</strong> the sides<br />
AB, DE, so that K<br />
,<br />
L bisect those sides.<br />
the<br />
Zenodorus wrote, at some date between (say)<br />
200 B.C. and<br />
A.D. 90, a treatise Trepi lo-<strong>of</strong>xirpcov o-^fiaTcov, On isometric<br />
figures. A number <strong>of</strong> propositions <strong>from</strong> it are preserved in<br />
the commentary <strong>of</strong> Theon <strong>of</strong> Alexandria on Book I <strong>of</strong><br />
P<strong>to</strong>lemy's Syntaxis ; and they are reproduced in Latin in the<br />
third volume <strong>of</strong> Hultsch's edition <strong>of</strong> Pappus, for the purpose<br />
<strong>of</strong> comparison with Pappus's own exposition <strong>of</strong> the same<br />
propositions at the beginning <strong>of</strong> his Book V, where he appears<br />
<strong>to</strong> have followed Zenodorus pretty closely while making some<br />
changes in detail. 5 From the closeness with which the style<br />
<strong>of</strong> Zenodorus follows that <strong>of</strong> Euclid and Archimedes we may<br />
judge that his date was not much later than that <strong>of</strong> Archimedes,<br />
whom he mentions as the author <strong>of</strong> the proposition<br />
(Measurement <strong>of</strong> a Circle, Prop. 1) that the area <strong>of</strong> a circle is<br />
half that <strong>of</strong> the rectangle contained <strong>by</strong> the perimeter <strong>of</strong> the<br />
circle and its radius. The important propositions proved <strong>by</strong><br />
Zenodorus and Pappus include the following: (1) Of all<br />
regular 'polygons <strong>of</strong> equal perimeter, that is the greatest in<br />
area which has the most angles. (2) A circle is greater than<br />
any regular polygon <strong>of</strong> equal con<strong>to</strong>ur. (3) Of all polygons <strong>of</strong><br />
the same number <strong>of</strong> sides and equal perimeter the equilateral<br />
and equiangular polygon is the greatest in area. Pappus<br />
added the further proposition that Of all segments <strong>of</strong> a circle<br />
having the same circumference the semicircle is the greatest in<br />
1<br />
Proclus on Eucl. I, p. 403. 5 sq.<br />
2<br />
Thuc. vi. 1.<br />
3 Polybius, ix. 21.<br />
4 Pliny, Hist. nat. vi. 208.<br />
5<br />
Pappus, v, p. 308 sq.<br />
AM<br />
Since the perimeters are equal, AB > DE, and AK > DL.<br />
Make KM equal <strong>to</strong> DL and join GM.<br />
Since AB is the same fraction <strong>of</strong> the perimeter that the<br />
angle A GB is <strong>of</strong> four right angles, and DE is the same fraction<br />
<strong>of</strong> the same perimeter that the angle J)HE is <strong>of</strong> four right<br />
angles, it follows that<br />
that is, AK :<br />
But<br />
AB:DE=lAGB:lDHE,<br />
LAGK-.L DHL.<br />
MK=<br />
AK :MK > lAGK:l MGK<br />
(this is easily proved in a lemma following <strong>by</strong> the usual<br />
method <strong>of</strong> drawing an arc <strong>of</strong> a circle with G as centre and GM<br />
as radius cutting GA and GK produced.<br />
The proposition is <strong>of</strong>.<br />
course equivalent <strong>to</strong> tan a/ tan /S > x/fi, where \tt > a > /?).<br />
Therefore<br />
and consequently<br />
Z MGK > Z DHL,<br />
Z GMK < Z HDL.<br />
Make the angle NMK equal <strong>to</strong> the angle HDL, so that MN<br />
meets KG produced in N.