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Essay Archive - Apollonius of Perga
Apollonius of Perga
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 later
writers, especially Pappus of Alexandria.
As a youth Apollonius studied in Alexandria ( under the pupils of Euclid,
according to Pappus ) and subsequently taught at the university there. He
visited Pergamum, capital of a Hellenistic kingdom in western Anatolia, where a
university and library similar to tho....
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