Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics

Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 9781461401469
ISBN-13 : 1461401461
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Book Synopsis Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics by : Michael N. Fried

Download or read book Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics written by Michael N. Fried and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 reconstruction of Book VIII with supplementary notes on the text. It also contains 1) an introduction discussing aspects of Apollonius’s Conics 2) an investigation of Edmond Halley's understanding of the nature of his venture into ancient mathematics, and 3) an appendices giving a brief account of Apollonius’s approach to conic sections and his mathematical techniques. 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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