Michael N Fried: 1 book
Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics
Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, of which four have come down to us in their original Greek and three in Arabic. By the time the Arabic translations were produced, the eighth book had already been lost. In...
