The late mathematician and academic Nikolaos K. Artemiadis forewords.

The work of Serenus of Antinoeus , presented towards the end of the Hellenistic period, is one of the most remarkable glimpses of the spirit of Greek Antiquity.

This work was revealed to the mathematicians of the Renaissance at the same time as the "Conics" of Apollonius , which, as a result, absorbed their attention, causing him to suffer the consequences of this coincidence. Even today, however, most historians of mathematics, perhaps influenced by the supremacy of the "Conics", make a simple mention of these works.

The present edition of the two treatises of Serenos "On a cylinder of section" and "On a cone of section", which have survived, is the first to be made in modern Greece, and this is exactly its purpose in principle, the presentation of his work alone Serena .