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1986 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Pappus of Alexandria The Collection Book 7
Which contains lemmas of the Domain of Analysis
Author : Alexander Jones
Published in: Pappus of Alexandria Book 7 of the Collection
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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That which is called the Domain of Analysis, my son Hermodorus, is, taken as a whole, a special resource that was prepared, after the composition of the Common Elements, for those who want to acquire a power in geometry that is capable of solving problems set to them; and it is useful for this alone. It was written by three men: Euclid the Elementarist, Appollonius of Perge, and Aristaeus the elder, and its approach is by analysis and synthesis.