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Wat is de geschiedenis van parabolen?

Wat is de geschiedenis van parabolen? Ik moet dinsdag p.o. wiskunde inleveren

ikke
19-12-2004

Antwoord

Om maar eens bij het begin te beginnen:

PARABOLA was probably coined by Apollonius, who, according to Pappus, had terms for all three conic sections. Michael N. Fried says there are two known occasions where Archimedes used the terms "parabola" and "ellipse," but that "these are, most likely, later interpolations rather than Archimedes own terminology."

However, G. J. Toomer believes the names parabola and hyperbola are older than Apollonius, based on an Arabic translation of Diocles' On burning mirrors.
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/p.html

Bij de links en onderaan kan je meer informatie vinden.

Zie ook Toepassingen van een parabool

Succes!

Zie Parabola [http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Parabola.html]

WvR
19-12-2004