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Essay Galaxy - 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 those in Alexandria had recently been built.
While at Pergamum he met Eudemus and Attaluus, and he wrote the first edition of
Conics. He addressed the prefaces of the first three books of the final edition
to Eudemus and the remaining volumes t....
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