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Restitution of the Two Books on Plane Loci of Apollonius of Perga together with On Spheric Contacts by Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)    by James D. Nicholson
Price: $1.70 USD. 17100 words. Language: English. Published on December 20, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Mathematics.

Pierre de Fermat, the famous French Renaissance mathematician who gave us Fermat's Last Theorem, left no mathematical records so far as the English-speaking world is concerned. This is because he wrote in Latin. Here for the first time are two of his early works restoring the lost geometry treatise of Apollonius of Perga as well as Fermat's own expansion of plane loci into 3D.
Mindkind: Math & Physics for the New Millennium    by William John Cox
Price: $1.99 USD. 28710 words. Language: English. Published on June 17, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Mathematics.

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Reminiscent of Victorian Age scientific philosophy, Mindkind interweaves alternative theories of physics, mathematics and geometry with the nature, origin and destiny of humanity in the universe.