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Apollonius of Perga

c. 240–c. 190 BCE · 3rd century BCE

Apollonius of Perga was a Greek mathematician and astronomer from Perge in Pamphylia who worked at Alexandria and Pergamon. His treatise Conics, in eight books, gave a systematic theory of the conic sections and introduced the names ellipse, parabola and hyperbola. It remained the standard work on the subject for centuries and influenced later astronomers and mathematicians such as Kepler and Descartes.

Apollonius of Perga
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Apollonius of Perga. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/apollonius-of-perga
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