Treatise on Conic Sections: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Apollonius of Perga, T. L. Heath (Editor)Series:Cambridge Library Collection - MathematicsPublish date:2013-11-21Pages:434
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108062787ISBN-10:1108062784UPC:9781108062787Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & PhilosophySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCBANNW0ME
Active in Alexandria in the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga ranks as one of the greatest Greek geometers. Building on foundations laid by Euclid, he is famous for defining the parabola, hyperbola and ellipse in his major treatise on conic sections. The dense nature of its text, however, made it inaccessible to most readers. When it was originally published in 1896 by the civil servant and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108062787ISBN-10:1108062784UPC:9781108062787Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & PhilosophySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCBANNW0ME
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