References for Archytas

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  1. K von Fritz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900142.html
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9009301/Archytas-of-Tarentum

Books:

  1. K Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers (Oxford, 1971).
  2. T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).
  3. B L van der Waerden, Science Awakening (New York, 1954).

Articles:

  1. E Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 (London-New York, 1998), 367-369.
  2. B B Hughes, Hippocrates and Archytas double the cube : a heuristic interpretation, College Math. J. 20 (1) (1989), 42-48.
  3. G E R LLoyd, Plato and Archytas in the seventh letter, Phronesis (2) 35 (1990), 159-173.
  4. E Marczewski, 'Platon et Archytas' de Norwid, Zastos. Mat. 10 (1969), 9-15.
  5. E Neuenschwander, Zur überlieferung der Archytas-Lösung des delischen Problems, Centaurus 18 (1973/74), 1-5.
  6. M Timpanaro Cardini, Pitagorici. Testimonianza e fragmenti II (Florence, 1962), 226-384.
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