Apollonius of Perga's Conica

Text, Context, Subtext
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-11977-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 222, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1012 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

This volume takes a new look at one of the greatest works of Hellenistic mathematics, Apollonius of Perga's Conica. It provides a long overdue alternative to H.G. Zeuthen's Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten im Altertum.
The central part of the volume contains a historically sensitive analysis and interpretation of the entire Conica, both from the standpoint of its individual books and of the text as a whole. Particular attention is given to Books V-VII, which have had scant treatment until now. Two chapters in the volume concern histioriographic issues connected with the Conica in paricular and Greek mathematics in general.
Although the volume is intended primarily for historians of ancient mathematics, its approach is fresh and engaging enough to be of interest also to historians, philosophers, linguists, and open-minded mathematicians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fried, Michael

Unguru, Sabetai

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Michael N. Fried, Ph.D. (1998) in History of Science, Tel-Aviv University, a graduate of St.John's College, is Researcher at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Center for Science and Technology Education.
Sabetai Unguru, Ph.D. (1970) in History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. His publications are in the fields of the history of Greek mathematics and medieval optics.