The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations

Reviel Netz is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Stanford University. He has published widely in the field of Greek mathematics: The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (1999) was runner-up for the Runciman Prize for 2000, and he is currently working on a complete English translation of and commentary on the works of Archimedes, the first volume of which was published in 2003. He has also written a volume of Hebrew poetry and an historical study of barbed wire.Netz, Reviel is the author of 'The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521041744 and ISBN 0521041740.