Eutocius dari Ascalon

Eutocius dari Ascalon (Lahir tahun 480 – wafat tahun 540) merupakan seorang matematik berkebangsaan Yunani yang menulis komentar di dalam beberapa acuan Archimedes dan di dalam Apollonian Conics.

Kehidupan dan Karya

Tidak banyak yang diketahui tentang kehidupan Eutocius. Ia menulis komentar dalam Apollonius dan Archimedes. Karya Eutocius yang masih ada sampai sekarang adalah:

Sebuah komentar atas satu dari empat buku yang berjudul the Conics of Apollonius.
Komentar-komentar atas buku-buku:
- the Sphere and Cylinder of Archimedes.
- the Quadrature of the Circle of Archimedes.
- the Two Books on Equilibrium of Archimedes.

Para sejarawan berhutang banyak akan pengetahuan mereka kepada solusi Archimedes tentang kubik dengan cara memotong conics yang disinggung di dalam The Sphere and Cylinder, pada Eutocius dan komentarnya. Eutocius mendedikasikan komentarnya atas Apollonius' Conics kepada Anthemius of Tralles, juga seorang matematik, dan arsitek Santa Sophia.^[1]

Referensi

^ Boyer, p. 193. "Eutocius (born ca. 480), commented on several Archimedean treatises and on the Apollonian Conics. It is to Eutocius that we owe the Archimedean solution of a cubic through intersecting conics, referred to in The Sphere and Cylinder but not otherwise extant except through the commentary of Eutocius. The commentary by Eutocius on the Conics of Apollonius was dedicated to Anthemius of Tralles (t534), an able mathematician and architect of St. Sophia of Constantinople."

Sumber

Boyer, Carl Benjamin (1991). A History of Mathematics (edisi ke-Second). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471543977.

Pranala luar

John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. Eutocius dari Ascalon di MacTutor archive.

[1] Boyer, p. 193. "Eutocius (born ca. 480), commented on several Archimedean treatises and on the Apollonian Conics. It is to Eutocius that we owe the Archimedean solution of a cubic through intersecting conics, referred to in The Sphere and Cylinder but not otherwise extant except through the commentary of Eutocius. The commentary by Eutocius on the Conics of Apollonius was dedicated to Anthemius of Tralles (t534), an able mathematician and architect of St. Sophia of Constantinople."

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