Category:Named Theorems/Apollonius

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This category contains results named for Apollonius of Perga.

Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος, also known (in the Latin form) as Pergaeus.

Greek geometer and astronomer best known for his work on conic sections, in which he uses techniques in analytic geometry which anticipated the work of Descartes.

Greatly influential, he provided the names of the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.

Pages in category "Named Theorems/Apollonius"

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