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Apollonius of Perga
Apollonius of Perga
(about
262 BC
- about
190 BC
) was a Greek geometer, noted for his writings on
conic sections
. It was Apollonius who gave the
ellipse
, the
parabola
, and the
hyperbola
the names by which we know them.
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