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The Readings of Apollonius' On the Cutting off of a Ratio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2012

Ioannis M. Vandoulakis
Ioannis M. Vandoulakis*
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University of the Aegean, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University Hill, 81100 Mytilene, Greece
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During the second half of the twentieth century an attention of historians of mathematics shifted to mathematics of the Late Antiquity and its subsequent development by mathematicians of the Arabic world. Many critical editions of works of mathematicians of the Hellenistic era have made their appearance, giving rise to a new, more detailed historical picture. Among these are the critical editions of the works of Diophantus, Apollonius, Archimedes, Pappus, Diocles, and others.

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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 137 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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