The Quadrature of the Parabola

The Quadrature of the Parabola

Jesse Russell Ronald Cohn

     

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ISBN: 978-5-5121-7333-6

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Quadrature of the Parabola is a treatise on geometry, written by Archimedes in the 3rd century BC. Written as a letter to his friend Dositheus, the work presents 24 propositions regarding parabolas, culminating in a proof that the area of a parabolic segment (the region enclosed by a parabola and a line) is 4/3 that of a certain inscribed triangle.