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Apollonius of Perga
Apollonius of Perga
c. 240 BCE–c. 190 BCE · Perga
Apollonius of Perga was a Greek mathematician active in the late 3rd and early 2nd century BCE, working partly at Alexandria. He is celebrated above all for his treatise 'Conics,' a profound study of the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola whose very names he established, and which remained a foundation of geometry for almost two thousand years. He also contributed to astronomy and to other branches of mathematics.
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Perga was a Greek city of Pamphylia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor near modern Antalya, Turkey. It was the birthplace of the mathematician Apollonius of Perga, author of the Conics, a foundational treatise on conic sections.
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