From Antiquity until recently, philosophers and mathematicians have continually discussed the concept of angle and its relation to archimedean...
Thabit ibn Qurra (826–901) was one of history’s most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of...
Until recently, only six of thirteen books comprising Diophantus’ Arithmetica were known to us. Four other books in an Arabic translation...
The treatise De Rationis Sectione by Apollonius of Perge, which deals with a unique and difficult problem, is a remarkable, complex example of the...
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...
This is the first study of the history of Diophantine analysis and the theory of numbers from Abū Kāmil to Fermat (9th-17th century). It thus...
With the fifth book of the Konika ancient mathematics reached a climax. In it Apollonius presents the first known theory of the maxima and minima...
The first three books of the Conica deals with the basic elements of the theory of conical sections, before Apollonius turns to particular problems...