Description: Further DetailsTitle: Treatise on Conic SectionsCondition: NewSubtitle: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the SubjectEAN: 9781108062787ISBN: 9781108062787Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/21/2013Description: 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 classical scholar Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940), the present work was the first English translation and, more importantly, the first serious effort to standardise the terminology and notation. Along with clear diagrams, Heath includes a thorough introduction to the work and the history of the subject. Seeing the treatise as more than an esoteric artefact, Heath presents it as a valuable tool for modern mathematicians. His works on Diophantos of Alexandria (1885) and Aristarchus of Samos (1913) are also reissued in this series.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 550gAuthor: Apollonius of PergaContributor: T. L. Heath (Edited by)Genre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Cambridge Library Collection - MathematicsRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Treatise on Conic Sections
Title: Treatise on Conic Sections
Subtitle: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay
EAN: 9781108062787
ISBN: 9781108062787
Release Date: 11/21/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: T. L. Heath (Edited by)
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 434 Pages
Publication Name: Treatise on Conic Sections : Edited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Geometry / Analytic, History & Philosophy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Author: Apollonius of Apollonius of Perga
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Mathematics
Series: Cambridge Library Collection-Mathematics Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
