Pappus of Alexandria Book 7 of the Collection: Part 1. Introduction, Text, and Translation
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The seventh book of Pappus's Collection, his commentary on the Domain (or Treasury) of Analysis, figures prominently in the history of both ancient and modern mathematics: as our chief source of information concerning several lost works of the Greek geometers Euclid and Apollonius, and as a book that inspired later mathematicians, among them Viete, Newton, and Chasles, to original discoveries in their pursuit of the lost science of antiquity. This...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0387962573
ISBN13:9780387962573
Release Date:January 1986
Publisher:Springer
Length:375 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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