Publication Date
2010
Publication Place
London ; New York -
Springer, c2010.
Subject
Curves, Algebraic, Geometry, Analytic
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
318
Physical Dimensions
25 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!105712~!4283
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2010
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312) and index., English translation with a facsimile copy of the 1683 Latin edition published: Amstelodami : ex typographia Blauiana, on facing pages.. Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312) and index., English translation with a facsimile copy of the 1683 Latin edition published: Amstelodami : ex typographia Blauiana, on facing pages.. 105712. xi, 318 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.. Library has the English translation of Liber primus of Witt's Elementa curvarum linearum, shelved at: QA551 .W76 2000.
Sample Text
"Following on from the 2000 edition of Jan De Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus, this book provides the accompanying translation of the second volume of Elementa Curvarum Linearum (Foundations of Curved Lines).... Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Secondus moves forward from the construction of the familiar conic sections covered in the Liber Primus, with a discussion of problems connected with their classification; given an equation, it covers how one can recover the standard form, and additionally how one can find the equation's geometric properties"--From publisher description.
ISBN
9780857291417 (hardcover : acid-free paper), 0857291416 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Seri
Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences