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  title info:
    title: Jan de Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus
    sub title: Text, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Albert W. Grootendorst
  title info:
    title: Elementa curvarum linearum
    part number: Liber primus. English
  name:
    name part: Witt, Johan de
    name part: 1625-1672
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Grootendorst, A. W.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Early works.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (VIII, 316 pages 149 illustrations)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: I. Dedication -- II. Preface Chapter -- Introduction -- Summary -- Latin Text and Translation -- Annotations to the Translation -- Appendix A: Application of Areas -- Appendix B: The conic sections in Apollonius -- References.
  note: by Albert W. Grootendorst.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Geometry, Analytic
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Geometry, Analytic
  classification: QA551 .W7613 2000eb
  classification: 516.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences
  identifier: 9781461212386 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461212383 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781461270560
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260421180242.9
    record identifier: in00003547059
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng