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Sir Thomas Little Heath

Sir Thomas Little Heath, 5 Oct 1861, Barnetby le Wold, Lincoln, England - 16 March 1940, Ashtead

Buried in St Giles' graveyard
Sir Thomas Little Heath, short article from School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
Thomas Little Heath KCB KCVO FRS, longer article from Wikipedia
Civil servant and authority on ancient mathematics; educated at Clifton and Trinity College, Cambridge; first classes, classical tripos, 1881-3; twelfth wrangler, 1882; passed first into Civil Service, 1884; entered Treasury; assistant secretary, 1907; joint permanent secretary, controlling administrative side, 1913; comptroller-general, National Debt Office, 1919-26; KCB, 1909; KCVO, 1916; a leading authority on Greek mathematics; made accessible in modern notation works of Diophantus (1885), Apollonius of Perga (1896), Archimedes (1897), and Euclid (1908); other publications include A History of Greek Mathematics (2 vols., 1921) and Greek Astronomy (1932); FRS, 1912; FBA, 1932.

Source: Concise Dictionary of National Biography

English mathematical historian who specialized in ancient Greece. His History of Greek Mathematics 1921 is regarded as the standard work on the subject in the English language. KCB 1909. Heath was born in Lincolnshire, studied at Cambridge and joined the civil service. He rose through the ranks in the Treasury Office; in 1913 he was appointed joint permanent secretary to the Treasury and auditor of the Civil List, and he was comptroller general and secretary to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt 1919-26. Between 1885 and 1912, Heath edited the works of Greek mathematicians Diophantus, Apollonius of Perga and Archimedes. His book Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus 1913 is a comprehensive account of Aristarchus and his work on astronomy. Euclid's Elements 1908 is a monumental work in three volumes. And in the great History of Greek Mathematics, Heath dealt with his subjects mainly according to topics and not in chronological order as others had done before him.

Source: The Hutchinson New Century Encyclopedia

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		Apollonius of Perga Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1896
		Archimedes Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1897
		Aristarchus of Samos - The Ancient Copernicus Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1913 by Clarendon Press
		Diophantus Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1885
		Euclid Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1908
		Greek Astronomy Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1932
		A History of Greek Mathematics vol 1 - from Thales to Euclid Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1921 by Clarendon Press
		A History of Greek Mathematics vol 2 - from Artistarchis to Diophantus Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published 1921 by Clarendon Press
		A Manual of Greek Mathematics Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published ?
		Mathematics Professor Davis Eugene Smith, & Sir Thomas Little Heath (introduction), C.P. Snow (foreword): Published 1923 by Marshall Jones Company Boston
		The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements vol 1 Sir Thomas Little Heath: Published ?

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