Serenus of Antinouplis

Serenus of Antinopolis, formerly Serenus Antissa, (* in Antinopolis, Egypt ) was a Hellenistic mathematician of the 4th century AD.

Life and work

About his life little is known. Formerly part of the birthplace Antissa was adopted on Lesbos, today takes you to the birthplace Antinopolis, a n of Emperor Hadrian 130 AD founded city in Egypt. Since he used the work of Pappus, it is generally accepted that he lived in the 4th century. From him two mathematical works are obtained over the section of the cylinder and over the section of the cone. He showed in the About section of the cylinder that sections of levels with lead cylinders as with cones on ellipses. As he writes himself, He wished to oppose a common mistake among students of geometry, if it were different characters. In his book on conic sections he deals mainly with surface areas of triangles that result from the intersection of planes through the top of cones. Serenus also wrote a commentary on the lost works of Apollonius of Perge on conic sections, from which may come a few sentences in the work of Theon of Smyrna, Theon because it ascribes a philosopher Serenus.

His works were published by Johann Ernst Nizze and Heiberg. A Latin translation of his works ( De sectione cylindri, De sectione coni ) in 1566, published in the edition of Apollonius of Federicus Commandinus ( Federico Commandino, 1509-1575 ) in Bologna, the Greek text with the first of Apollonius of Edmond Halley (Oxford 1710 ).

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