Jan de Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus : Text, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Albert W. Grootendorst

Albertus W. Grootendorst

ISBN 10: 0387987487 / ISBN 13: 9780387987484

Editore: Springer New York, Springer New York, 2000

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The present book is a translation into English of Elernenta CU'f'Varurn Linearurn-Liber Prirnus, written in Latin, by the Dutch statesman and mathematician Jan de Witt (1625-1672). Together with its sequel, Ele rnenta CU'f'Varurn Linearurn-Liber Secundus, it constitutes the first text book on Analytic Geometry, based on the ideas of Descartes, as laid down in his Geornetrie of 1637. The first edition of de Witt's work appeared in 1659 and this translation is its first translation into English. For more details the reader is referred to the Introduction. Apart from this translation and this introduction, the present work con tains an extensive summary, annotations to the translation, and two ap pendices on the role of the conics in Greek mathematics. The translation has been made from the second edition, printed by the Blaeu Company in Amsterdam in 1684. In 1997 the translator published a translation into Dutch of the same work, likewise supplied with an introduction, a summary, notes, and two appendices. This edition appeared as a publication of the Stichting Mathe matisch Centrum Amsterdam. The present translation, however, is a direct translation of the Latin text. The rest of this work is an English version of the introduction, the summary, the notes, and the appendices, based on the Dutch original.

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• Titolo: Jan de Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus : Text, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Albert W. Grootendorst
• Editore: Springer New York, Springer New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387987487
• ISBN 13: 9780387987484
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 22 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 22 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 641 grammi

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Riassunto

This book is an English translation of the first textbook on Analytic Geometry, written in Latin by the Dutch statesman and mathematician Jan de Witt soon after Descartes invented the subject. De Witt (1625-1672) is best known for his work in actuarial mathematics ("Calculation of the Values of Annuities as Proportions of the Rents") and for his contributions to analytic geometry, including the focus-directrix definition of conics and the use of the discriminant to distinguish among them. In addition to the translation and annotations, this volume contains an introduction and commentary, including a discussion of the role of conics in Greek mathematics.

Contenuti

1 Introduction.- 2 Summary.- 3 Latin text and translation.- 4 Annotations to the translation.- Appendices.- A Application of areas.- B The conic sections in Apollonius.- References.