Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

• I. The Historical Significance of the Idea of Geometrical Analysis.- II. Pappus on the Direction of Analysis and Synthesis.- III. What Pappus Says and What He Does: A Comparison and an Example.- IV. Analysis as Analysis of Figures: The Logic of the Analytical Method.- V. The Role of Auxiliary Constructions.- VI. The Problem of the ‘Resolution’.- VII. Analysis as Analysis of Figures: Pappus’ Terminology and His Practice.- VIII. Pappus and the Tradition of Geometrical Analysis.- IX. On the Significance of the Method of Analysis in Early Modern Science.- Appendix I Árpád K. Szabò/Working Backwards and Proving by Synthesis.- Appendix II Reply to Professor Szabò.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Passages.