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Two Lost Books By An Ancient Greek Mathematician Have Survived In An Arabic Manuscript

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Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as “The Great Geometer,” have survived in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden University in the Netherlands. The manuscript had been forgotten in the library. It was part of a collection of nearly 200 manuscripts brought to the university by the famous Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob Golius during his travels to the Middle East in the 17th century…

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Two Lost Books By An Ancient Greek Mathematician Have Survived In An Arabic Manuscript

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Lost texts of the “Great Geometer” survive in Arabic manuscript

A new publication from Leiden University Press reveals the two lost Apollonius books, which survived in an ancient Arabic manuscript at the Leiden University Library in the Netherlands. Apollonius, one of the greatest mathematicians in Greece, is famous for his book “The Conics of Apollonius”, in which he introduced the terms hyperbole, ellipse and parable.

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