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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 ...

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forth by Euclid, Aristaeus and
Menaechmus. A number of theorems in Book 3 and the greater part of Book 4 are
new, however, and he introduced the terms parabola, eelipse, and hyperbola.
Books 5-7 are clearly original. His genius takes its highest flight in Book 5,
in which he considers normals as minimum and maximum straight lines drawn from
given points to the curve ( independently of tangent properties ), discusses how
many normals can be drawn from particular points, finds their feet by
construction, and gives propositions determining the center of curvature at any
points and leading at once to the Cartesian equation of the evolute of any conic.

The first four books of the Conics survive in the original Grrek and the
next three in Arabic translation. Book 8 is lost. The only other extant work
of Apollonius is Cutting Off of a Ratio ( or On Proportional Section ), in an
Arabic translation. Pappus mentions five additional works, Cutting off an Area
( or On Spatial Section ) ...

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Added: 11/17/2007 09:47:17 AM
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