Subject: [HM] History of the Conics
From: Victor Steinbok (aardvark69@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 23:48:04 EST
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Subject: History of the Conics
Date: 5 Mar 00 14:18:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Totten <jtotten@saintanns.k12.ny.us>
To: geometry-pre-college@mathforum.com
I'm wondering how Apollonius (or someone else?) first made the
connection between the shapes--parabola, ellipse, hyperbola--and the
slicing of a cone to generate those shapes.
Also, can anyone recommend an informative book on the subject?
Thanks.
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