scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1284381

MaRDI QIDQ4241973zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jan P. Hogendijk

Publication date 31 May 1999

zbMATH Keywords

Apollonius of Pergaconic sectionsconics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

Review text

Contents of the survey under review: 1) The origin of conics. The Delphic altar; 2) From Menaechmus to Apollonius; 3) Apollonius of Perga and his ``Conica; 4) A proof from ``Conica (reconstruction of Apollonius' reasoning in Proposition 13, Book I); 5) Conic sections -- what for? (Conics in pure and applied mathematics). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0908.00021].

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