Simson on Porisms : an Annotated Translation of Robert Simson's Posthumous Treatise on Porisms and Other Items on this Subject /
Most mathematicians' knowledge of Euclid's lost work on Porisms comes from a very brief and general description by Pappus of Alexandria. While Fermat and others made earlier attempts to explain the Porisms, it is Robert Simson who is generally recognised as the first person to achieve a ge...
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2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I
- Introductory Material: Summary. Preface. Definitions. Propositions 1-6. Pappus's Account of the Porisms. Notes on Part I
- Part II
- Papus's Two General Propositions and Euclid's First Porism: Summary. Propositions 7-25. Notes on Part II
- Part III
- Lemmas and Restorations: Summary. Propositions 26-79. Notes on Part III
- Part IV
- Various Porisms: Fermat, Simson and Stewart. Summary. Propositions 80-93. Notes on Part IV
- Appendices: A Translation of Simson's 1723 Paper along with some Comments. "That this goes to a given point". Correspondence between Pappus's Lemmas and Simson's Propositions. Corrections to Simson's Text
- References
- Name Index.