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- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 authorlink "Carl Benjamin Boyer".
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 chapter "The age of Plato and Aristotle".
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 isCitedBy Menaechmus.
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 last "Boyer".
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 page "93".
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 quote "It was consequently a signal achievement on the part of Menaechmus when he disclosed that curves having the desired property were near at hand. In fact, there was a family of appropriate curves obtained from a single source - the cutting of a right circular cone by a plane perpendicular to an element of the cone. That is, Menaechmus is reputed to have discovered the curves that were later known as the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola. [...] Yet the first discovery of the ellipse seems to have been made by Menaechmus as a mere by-product in a search in which it was the parabola and hyperbola that proffered the properties needed in the solution of the Delian problem.".
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 title "A History of Mathematics".
- d15b200397b2c116babc5aa44acdbd3b70279ed9ca043b9a36d565b0db306091 year "1991".