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Michael N. Fried - Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics - 9781461429876 - V9781461429876
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Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics

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Description for Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics Paperback. Comprised of eight books, Apollonius's Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. This volume provides the first complete English translation of Edmond Halley's reconstruction of Book VIII with supplementary notes on the text. Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBM; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 231.

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 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.  

The present work provides the first complete English translation of Halley’s ... Read more

This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the history of ancient Greek mathematics and mathematics in the early modern period.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461429876
SKU
V9781461429876
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