Abstract
THE assertion made in the opening lines of the preface to the book now before us, that “to the great majority of mathematicians at the present time, Apollonius is nothing more than a name and his “Conies,” for all practical purposes, a book unknown,” is probably well within the truth. That this should be so is a pity, because the work of the great geometer is not only valuable and interesting in itself, but affords an excellent example of the methods of Greek geometry at its best period.
Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections.
Edited in Modern Notation, with Introductions, including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject, by T. L. Heath Pp. clxx + 254. (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1896.)
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M., G. Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections. Nature 54, 314–315 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054314a0
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