See Also: Apollonius of Perga(encyclopedia)
Apollonius (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Apollonius Dyscolos(encyclopedia)
Apollonius of Rhodes(encyclopedia)

Apollonius of Perga (sh)




born งใ 240 BC, Perga, Anatolia
died งใ 190 BC, Alexandria, Egypt

Mathematician known as "The Great Geometer.

" His Conics was one of the greatest scientific treatises of the ancient world. In it he introduced the terms parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. Because Conics was fundamental to later advances in optics and astronomy in the Islamic world, a 9th-century Arabic translation survived to fill in for some of the missing Greek original. Generally, his other writings survive only as titles.