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Apollonius of Perga

Apollonius of Perga, called the Great Geometer, Greek mathematician, who lived during the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries bc. He was born in Perga,...

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The Greeks, particularly Apollonius of Perga, made a study of the family of curves known as conic sections and discovered many of their fundamental...

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The Hellenistic world was dominated by three great dynasties founded by the successors of Alexander: the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt; the Seleucids in...

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	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Apollonius of Perga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Apollonius of Perga [Pergaeus] (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος) (ca. 262 BC–ca. 190 BC) was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections. Apollonius of Perga (c. 262-190 B.C.) known as 'The Great Geometer', great influence on the development of mathematics, famous book Conics introduced terms such as parabola, ellipse and hyperbola. Amazon.com: apollonius Perga Great Books of the Western World Vol. 11 Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus - Hardcover (1952) by Robert Maynard Hutchins [Editor] See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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