Coniques - Tome 4: Livres VI et VII. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe

Book VI of the Konika is essentially devoted to the question of the identity and similarity of two conic sections, or two parts of conic sections. In Book VII Apollonius deals with the various relationships between the lengths of diameters and conjugate diameters. The results are applied to the exposition of a number of problems, as well as to some problems which Apollonius indicates will be demonstrated and solved in Book VIII, which was lost in Antiquity. Books VI and VII have only survived in an Arabic translation, and are presented here in a critical edition, together with a faithful translation and a historical-mathematical commentary.

About the author

Roshdi Rashed, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique und Université de Paris VII, Paris, Frankreich.

Product details

• Authors: Apollonius von Perge
• Assisted by: Roshd Rashed (Editor), Roshdi Rashed (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: German, Arab, French
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783110199406
• ISBN: 978-3-11-019940-6
• No. of pages: 572
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 42 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 1074 g
• Sets: Coniques; Coniques; Apollonius de Perge: Apollonius de Perge, Coniques
• Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica; Scientia Graeco-Arabica; ISSN; Apollonius de Perge: Apollonius de Perge, Coniques
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity