Wat is de geschiedenis van parabolen? Ik moet dinsdag p.o. wiskunde inleveren
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Leerling bovenbouw havo-vwo - zondag 19 december 2004
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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
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