c. 240–190 BCE · mathematician
Apollonius of Perga
Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 220 BCE
"The great geometer", whose Conics named the ellipse, the parabola and the hyperbola. Pappus says he studied in Alexandria with the pupils of Euclid.
Our device: Their emblem is a cone cut by a plane. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
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- Apollonius of Perga, Conics · c. 210–190 BCE · Survives in large part
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Sources (3)
- Pappus, Collection 7.35
- Apollonius, Conics 1, preface
- T. L. Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921) (opens in a new tab)