Apollonius Of Perga
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Apollonius was a great mathematician, known by his contempories as " The
Great Geometer, " whose treatise Conics is one of the greatest scientific works
from the ancient world. Most of his other treatise were lost, although their
titles and a general indication of their contents were passed on by l ....
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.... Samos, and
Nicoteles of Cyrene that he made the fullest use of his predecessors' works.
Book 1-4 contain a systematic account of the essential principles of conics,
which for the most part had been previously set forth by Euclid, Aristaeus and
Menaechmus. A number of theorems in Book 3 and the greater part of Book 4 are
new, however, and he introduced the terms parabola, eelipse, and hyperbola.
Books 5-7 are clearly original. His genius takes its highest flight in Book 5,
in which he consi ....
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