Author | Tweddle, Ian. author |
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Title | Simson on Porisms [electronic resource] : An Annotated Translation of Robert Simson's Posthumous Treatise on Porisms and Other Items on this Subject / by Ian Tweddle |
Imprint | London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3673-6 |
Descript | X, 274 p. online resource |
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