A Geometrical Treatise on the Conic Sections: With an Appendix, Containing Formulae for Their Quadrature, &cAdam and Charles Black; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London, 1837 - Conic sections - 208 pages |
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A Geometrical Treatise on the Conic Sections with an Appendix William Wallace No preview available - 2019 |
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