References for Theaetetus

1. I Bulmer-Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

3. T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).
4. B L van der Waerden, Science Awakening (New York, 1954).

Articles:

5. G J Allman, Theaetetus, in Greek geometry from Thales to Euclid ((London-Dublin, 1889), 206-215.
6. M S Brown, Theaetetus : Knowledge as Continued Learning, Journal of the History of Philosophy 7 (1969), 359-379.
7. M F Burnyeat, The philosophical sense of Theaetetus' mathematics, Isis 69 (249) (1978), 489-513.
8. J Hoyrup, 'D'ynamis', the Babylonians, and Theaetetus, Historia Math. 17 (3) (1990), 201-222.
9. J Hoyrup, Erratum : 'D'ynamis', the Babylonians, and Theaetetus, Historia Math. 18 (1) (1991), 89.
10. M E Paiow, Die mathematische Theaetetsstelle, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 27 (1) (1982), 87--99.
11. A Wasserstein, Theaetetus and the History of the Theory of Numbers, Classical Quarterly 8 (1958), 165-179.

April 1999