to the Applet Index or you can go to the curve. BS/JOC/EFR July 1996. The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Java/Parabola.html.
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How the parabola is used for focusing waves, For details, see Sir Thomas Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (New York: Dover, 1981), vol. II, pp 134-138. Apollonius of Perga is famous for his masterful study of the conic sections, including these definitions, but their basic properties were already known by Euclid,
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; The History | Definition | Breakdown of the Equation The parabola was explored by Menaechmus (380 BC to 320 BC), who was a pupil of Plato and Eudoxus. He was trying to dublicate the cube by finding the side of the cube that has an area double the cube. Instead, Menaechmus solved it by finding the intersection of the...
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. "Parabola." http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Parabola.html. Pappas, T. "The Parabolic Ceiling of...
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The parabola was studied by Menaechmus who was a pupil of Plato and Eudoxus. He attempted to duplicate the cube, namely to find side of a cube that has a volume double that of a given cube. Hence he attempted to solve x3 = 2 by geometrical methods. History Topics Index...
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One of the most studied curves in the history of mathematics, a parabola is the outline of the figure obtained if a right circular cone is cut by a plane...
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History. Parabolic compass designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Parabolae are conic sections. The earliest known work on conic sections was...
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Parabola is a member of conic sections, along with hyperbola and ellipse. Parabola can be thought of as a limiting case of ellipse or hyperbola. Note that parabola is not a family of curves. The impression that some parabola are more curved is because we are looking See the History section of Conic Sections page.
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He is also the one to give the name ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. A brief explanation of the naming can be found in Howard Eves, An Introduction to the History of Math. 6th ed. page 172. (also see J.H.Conway's newsgroup message, link at the bottom)
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