Book
Conics
by Apollonius
- Published
- -200
- Genre
- Science/Math
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press
Apollonius of Perga's Conics is the ancient Greek study of the curves you get by cutting a cone: the ellipse, the parabola and the hyperbola. Written about 200 BC, it named the sections, gathered what was known about them into a single systematic theory, and remained the standard work on the subject for centuries, first in the Greek tradition and then in the Arabic one.
Collections
St. John's College · 2
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781888009057
- ISBN-10
- 1888009055
Tags
ClassicsGeometryHistory-Ancient GreeceScience-MathematicsSt. John's College