The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob Golius during his travels in the Middle East in the 17th century. Scholars ...

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Radko Kotev, a 19 year old Bulgarian highschool student, has solved the 2000 year old geometric problem of Apollonius in a new and unique way. The problem of Apollonius is to construct circles that ...

GREEK geometry passed through several stages from its inception to its highest development in the hands of Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga. The geometry which Thales brought from Egypt early in the ...

THIS is a companion volume to Dr. T. L. Heath's valuable edition of the “Treatise on Conic Sections” by Apollonius of Perga, and the same patience, learning and skill which have turned the latter book ...