Livre IV. Commentaire Historique Et Mathématique, Édition Et Traduction Du Texte Arabe [French]

By Rashed and Roshdi

Book IV of the Konika consists of two parts; the first presents a theory of poles and polars, the second deals with the number of intersections and points of contact in a conic section. Previously the book was only extant as the very unreliable text of a Greek commentary by Eutocius. Roshdi Rashed here presents for the first time an edition of an Arabic translation based on a text independent of this Greek version. This is a valuable re-discovery, for which reason it is published here as a separate volume. It contains an edition princeps of the Arabic text, together with a faithful translation and a historical-mathematical commentary.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 3110199386
• ISBN13: 9783110199383
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary