Thomas Little Heath

Thomas Little Heath

Biografi
Kelahiran	5 Oktober 1861 Barnetby le Wold (Kerajaan Perserikatan Britania Raya dan Irlandia)
Kematian	16 Maret 1940 (78 tahun) Ashtead (Britania Raya)
Tempat pemakaman	Church of St Giles, Ashtead (en) earth
Ketua Mathematical Association (mul)
1922 – 1923 ← James Maurice Wilson (en) – Godfrey Harold Hardy →
Data pribadi
Pendidikan	Trinity College (en) (1879–1883) Clifton College (en) (–1879) Caistor Grammar School (mul) (–1870 dekade)
Kegiatan
Pekerjaan	matematikawan, beamter (en) , classical scholar (en) , historian of mathematics (en) , classical philologist (en)
Bekerja di	National Debt Office (mul) (1919–1926) Exchequer (en) (1884–1919)
Karya kreatif
Karya terkenal (1908) The Thirteen books of Euclid's Elements (mul) (1921) A History of Greek Mathematics (mul)
Keluarga
Saudara	Robert Samuel Heath (mul)
Penghargaan (1932)  Fellow of the British Academy (1916)  Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (en) (1913)  Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford (en) (1912)  Fellow of the Royal Society (1909)  Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (en) (1903)  Knight of the Bath (en)

Sir Thomas Little Heath KCB KCVO FRS FBA (/hiːθ/; 5 Oktober 1861 – 16 Maret 1940) adalah seorang pegawai sipil, matematikawan, cendekiawan klasik, sejarawan matematika Yunani kuno, penerjemah dan pendaki gunung asal Inggris. Ia dididik di Clifton College. Heath menerjemahkan karya-karya Euclid dari Alexandria, Apollonius dari Perga, Aristarchus dari Samos, dan Archimedes dari Syracuse ke dalam bahasa Inggris.

Bacaan tambahan

• "About the translator: Thomas L. Heath" in Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume (2002) Green Lion Press. ISBN 978-1-888009-19-4
• J.A. Smith, Review of A History of Greek Mathematics, The Classical Review, 37, no. 34 (May – June 1923), 69–71

Pranala luar

Teks daring dari buku Heath

• Karya Thomas Little Heath di Project Gutenberg
• Karya oleh/tentang Thomas Little Heath di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• A History of Greek Mathematics: vol. 1, vol. 2
• The Works of Archimedes
  • Archimedes' Quadrature Of The Parabola Diarsipkan 2012-03-20 di Wayback Machine.
  • Archimedes' On The Measurement Of The Circle
• Diophantus Of Alexandria: A Study In The History Of Greek Algebra
• The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3
• The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements - Second Edition Revised with Additions: Vol. 1-3
• PDF files of many of Heath's works, including those on Diophantus, Apollonius, etc.

Penjelasan dari MacTutor

• Heath: Everyman's Library Euclid Introduction
• Heath: The thirteen books of Euclid's elements Preface
• Heath: Mathematics in Aristotle Preface

Tentang T.L. Heath

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. Thomas Little Heath di MacTutor archive.