Treatise on Conic Sections: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject by Apollonius of Perga

Treatise on Conic Sections: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject

Apollonius of Perga

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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 s...

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