A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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THE COLLECTION. BOOK V<strong>II</strong> 401<br />
successive consequences, taking them as true, up <strong>to</strong> something<br />
admitted : if then (a) what is admitted is possible and obtainable,<br />
that is, what mathematicians call given, what was<br />
originally proposed will also be possible, and the pro<strong>of</strong> will<br />
again correspond in the reverse order <strong>to</strong> the analysis, but if (b)<br />
we come upon something admittedly impossible, the problem<br />
will also be impossible.'<br />
This statement could hardly be improved upon except that<br />
it ought <strong>to</strong> be added that each step in the chain <strong>of</strong> inference<br />
in the analysis must be unconditionally convertible ;<br />
that is,<br />
when in the analysis we say that, if A is true, B is true,<br />
we must be sure that each statement is a necessary consequence<br />
<strong>of</strong> the other, so that the truth <strong>of</strong> A equally follows<br />
<strong>from</strong> the truth <strong>of</strong> B. This, however, is almost implied <strong>by</strong><br />
Pappus when he says that we inquire, not what it is (namely<br />
B) which follows <strong>from</strong> A, but what it is (B) <strong>from</strong> which A<br />
follows, and so on.<br />
List <strong>of</strong> works in the ' Treasury <strong>of</strong> Analysis \<br />
Pappus adds a list, in order, <strong>of</strong> the books forming the<br />
'Ava\v6fiei>o$, namely :<br />
Euclid's Data, one Book, Apollonius's Cutting-<strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> a ratio,<br />
'<br />
two Books, Cutting-<strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> an area, two Books, Determinate<br />
Section, two Books, Contacts, two Books, Euclid's Porisms,<br />
three Books, Apollonius's Inclinations or Vergings (vtvoei?),<br />
two Books, the same author's Plane Loci, two Books, and<br />
Conies, eight Books, Aristaeus's Solid Loci, five Books, Euclid's<br />
Surface-Loci, two Books, Era<strong>to</strong>sthenes's On means, two Books.<br />
There are in all thirty-three Books, the contents <strong>of</strong> which up<br />
<strong>to</strong> the Conies <strong>of</strong> Apollonius I have set out for your consideration,<br />
including not only the number <strong>of</strong> the propositions, the<br />
diorismi and the cases dealt with in each Book, but also the<br />
lemmas which are required; indeed I have not, <strong>to</strong> the best<br />
<strong>of</strong> my belief, omitted any question arising in the study <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Books in question.'<br />
Description <strong>of</strong> the<br />
treatises.<br />
Then follows the short description <strong>of</strong> the contents <strong>of</strong> the<br />
various Books down <strong>to</strong> Apollonius's Conies; no account is<br />
given <strong>of</strong> Aristaeus's Solid Loci, Euclid's Surface-Loci and<br />
1688.2 X> d<br />
402 PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA<br />
Era<strong>to</strong>sthenes's On means, nor are there any lemmas <strong>to</strong> these<br />
works except two on the Surface-Loci at the end <strong>of</strong> the Book.<br />
The contents <strong>of</strong> the various works, including those <strong>of</strong> the<br />
lost treatises so far as they can be gathered <strong>from</strong> Pappus,<br />
have been described in the chapters devoted <strong>to</strong> their authors,<br />
and need not be further referred <strong>to</strong> here, except for an<br />
addendum <strong>to</strong> the account <strong>of</strong> Apollonius's Conies which is<br />
remarkable. Pappus has been speaking <strong>of</strong> the ' locus with<br />
respect <strong>to</strong> three or four lines' (which is a conic), and proceeds<br />
<strong>to</strong> say (p. 678. 26) that we may in like manner have loci with<br />
reference <strong>to</strong> five or six or even more lines ; these had not up<br />
<strong>to</strong> his time become generally known, though the synthesis<br />
<strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> them, not <strong>by</strong> any means the most obvious, had been<br />
worked out and its utility shown. Suppose that there are<br />
five or six lines, and that p 1 ,p2 >Pa> 2h P5 or Pi Pi Pz » » > ><br />
Pa > Ph<br />
><br />
Pe<br />
are the lengths <strong>of</strong> straight lines drawn <strong>from</strong> a point <strong>to</strong> meet<br />
the five or six at given angles, then, if in the first case<br />
PiPzPz — ^PiP5 a (where X is a constant ratio and a a given<br />
length), and in the second case p Y P2 Pz — ^P\P$P§i the locus<br />
<strong>of</strong> the point is in each case a certain curve given in position.<br />
The relation could not be expressed in the same form if<br />
there were more lines than six, because there are only three<br />
dimensions in geometry, although certain recent writers had<br />
allowed themselves <strong>to</strong> speak <strong>of</strong> a rectangle multiplied <strong>by</strong><br />
a square or a rectangle without giving any intelligible idea <strong>of</strong><br />
what they meant <strong>by</strong> such a thing (is Pappus here alluding <strong>to</strong><br />
Heron's pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the formula for the area <strong>of</strong> a triangle in<br />
terms <strong>of</strong> its sides given on pp. 322-3, above ?). But the system<br />
<strong>of</strong> compounded ratios enables it <strong>to</strong> be expressed for any<br />
number <strong>of</strong> lines thus, ^.^§ *_» (<br />
r -^^ ) = A. Pappus<br />
p 2 2\ a V pn /<br />
proceeds in language not very clear (p. 680. 30) ; but the gist<br />
seems <strong>to</strong> be that the investigation <strong>of</strong> these curves had not<br />
attracted men <strong>of</strong> light and leading, as, for instance, the old<br />
geometers and the best writers. Yet there were other important<br />
discoveries still remaining <strong>to</strong> be made. For himself, he<br />
noticed that every one in his day was occupied with the elements,<br />
the first principles and the natural origin <strong>of</strong> the subjectmatter<br />
<strong>of</strong> investigation ; ashamed <strong>to</strong> pursue such <strong>to</strong>pics, he had<br />
himself proved propositions <strong>of</strong> much more importance and