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Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII: The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa - Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 1990 edition
Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII: The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa - Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 1990 edition
With the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub lish the /llost books" of the Conics of Apollonius in the form which is the closest we have to the original, the Arabic version of the Banu Musil.
988 pages, 288 figs. (In 2 volumes, not available seperately)
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 2, 1990 |
ISBN13 | 9780387972169 |
Publishers | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
Pages | 890 |
Dimensions | 1.36 kg (Weight (estimated)) |
Language | Arabic |
Translator | Toomer, Gerald J. |