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Apollonius Of Perga
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Apollonius was a great mathematician, known by his contempories as " The
Great Geometer, " whose treatise Conics is one of the greatest scientific works
from the ancient world. Most of his other treatise were lost, although their
titles and a general indication of their contents were passed on by l ....
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....nstruction, and gives propositions determining the center of curvature at any
points and leading at once to the Cartesian equation of the evolute of any conic.
The first four books of the Conics survive in the original Grrek and the
next three in Arabic translation. Book 8 is lost. The only other extant work
of Apollonius is Cutting Off of a Ratio ( or On Proportional Section ), in an
Arabic translation. Pappus mentions five additional works, Cutting off an Area
( or On Spatial Section ) ,.... |
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