im doing a project and i need to kno who discovered the ellipse and when it was discoverd and all of that
any help would b greatly appreaciated
2007-02-25 06:55:54 · 6 answers · asked by USER 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
i looked at all those sites and none of them helped
2007-02-25 07:16:41 · update #1
wiki it
2007-02-25 06:59:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Greeks knew about the ellipse and the other conic sections.
The knowledge of conic sections can be traced back to Ancient Greece. Menaechmus is credited with the discovery of conic sections around the years 360-350 B.C.
Here is a link.
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers1999/schmarge.html
2007-02-26 19:17:22 · answer #2 · answered by Northstar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who Discovered The Ellipse
2017-02-24 06:00:24 · answer #3 · answered by witherell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr henry ellipse
2007-02-25 06:58:46 · answer #4 · answered by J D 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know how is your reading level, but check this
web stie:
http://www.xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/ConicSections_dir/conicSections.html
2007-02-25 07:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by I know some math 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check on www.wikipedia.org
2007-02-25 07:05:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋