Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics
Translation and Commentary
Apollonius's Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, four of which 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 1710, Edmond Halley, then Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, produced an edition of the Greek text of the Conics of Books I-IV, a translation into Latin from the Arabic versions of Books V-VII, and a reconstruction of Book VIII. Motivated by such questions as what role did Halley's reconstruction play in the mathematical world of the late 17th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4614-0146-9
- EAN: 9781461401469
- Produktnummer: 17267254
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 134 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'730 KB
- Auflage: 2012
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie
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