Books Received Published: 30 May 1925 Algebraic Geometry: a First Course, including an Introduction to the Conic Section W. E. H. B. Nature 115, 833 (1925) Cite this article ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we describe the genesis of Boscovich's Sectionum Conicarum Elementa and discuss the motivations which led him to write this ...

THE merits of this book are so well known that comment is almost needless. Nearly thirty years have passed since it was first published, and since then a few additions have been made from time to time ...

Vol. 44, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy (December 2014), pp. 719-758 (40 pages) This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to ...