Apollonios of Perge

Michael N. Fried

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Apollonios of Perge

Michael N. Fried

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Apollonios of Perge, along with Euclid and Archimedes, was one of the greatest mathematicians of the Hellenistic period. The work for which he is best known is his Conics in Eight Books. Even in the ancient period, this was a celebrated work and was the reason Apollonios came to be known as the “great geometer.” Most of his other works seem to have been geometrical in character, but there are some which may have been of a more general nature, and there is a reference to work he may have done in astronomy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
Publisher	Wiley Online Library
Pages	1-2
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781444338386
ISBN (Print)	9781405179355
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah21031.pub2
State	Published - Dec 2018

Keywords

ancient Greek
Hellenistic Period
history of science
medicine and technology
intellectual history

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