DR. SCOTT'S treatise is a welcome addition to the many excellent text-books on analytical geometry which have been published during the last few years. But while most of the text-books in use at the ...
In this brief, accessible foray, popular math/science writer Berlinski (Newton’s Gift) breathes life into an ancient mathematician and the world of axioms and theorems he created—a geometric world ...
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
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