With the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub lish the /llost boo
Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, of which four have come down to us in
This publication would not have been what it is without the help of many institutions and people, which I acknowledge most gratefully. I thank the Central Libra