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Apollonius

lived from 262 BC to 190 BC

Apollonius was a Greek mathematician known as 'The Great Geometer'. His works had a very great influence on the development of mathematics and his famous book Conics introduced the terms parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Apollonius/