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    Born in 262 BC in Perga, Apollonius studied in Alexandria and lectured at the Museum. He became acquainted with the geometer Eudemus in Pergamum. Apollonius is known for his treatise Conics, which contains eight books systematically developing the theory of conic sections. Through classifying cones based on their vertex angles and examining the intersections of planes with cones, Apollonius defined the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, establishing him as one of the great geometers of antiquity.

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    Born in 262 BC in Perga, Apollonius studied in Alexandria and lectured at the Museum. He became acquainted with the geometer Eudemus in Pergamum. Apollonius is known for his treatise Conics, which contains eight books systematically developing the theory of conic sections. Through classifying cones based on their vertex angles and examining the intersections of planes with cones, Apollonius defined the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, establishing him as one of the great geometers of antiquity.

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    Born in 262 BC in Perga, Apollonius studied in Alexandria and lectured at the Museum. He became acquainted with the geometer Eudemus in Pergamum. Apollonius is known for his treatise Conics, which contains eight books systematically developing the theory of conic sections. Through classifying cones based on their vertex angles and examining the intersections of planes with cones, Apollonius defined the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, establishing him as one of the great geometers of antiquity.

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    born about 262 BC in Perga,

    Pamphylia, Greek Ionia


    (now Murtina, Anatalya, Turkey)
    died about 190 BC in Alexandria,
    Egypt
    a younger contemporary of
    Archimedes
    Perga Alexandria Pergamum
    -Perga, was a center of culture at this time
    and it was the place of worship of Queen
    Artemis, a nature goddess.

    -in Alexandria, he studied at the Museum


    and resided there for many years to lecture
    and compose the first draft of his famous
    Conics.
    -in Pergamum ( Berguma, Izmir in Turkey), he
    had a newly founded university and library
    he became acquainted with the Geometer
    Eudemus of Pergamum.
    The Conics
    - contains of 389 propositions
    organized in eight books
    - the first four books have come
    down to us in the original
    Greek
    - the next three are preserved
    in Arabic translation, while the
    last is lost
    Conic sections

    Study of three
    curves
    Tracing back the history of
    conics

    Hippocrates Menaechmus Apollonius


    (5th century BCE) (350 BCE) (1566)
    Hippocrates in the fifth century BCE
    reduced the problem of
    constructing a cube double the
    volume of a given cube
    x2=ay
    y2=2ax Equation of a parabola
    xy=2a2 Equation of a hyperbola
    -pupil of Eudoxus and a
    member of Platos Academy
    -first constructed curves that satisfy
    these algebraic properties and thus
    showed that the point of
    intersection of these curves would
    give the desired two means and
    solve the problem of doubling the
    cube.
    Euclidean point-wise construction of a
    parabola
    defined a cone as a solid
    generated by rotating a right
    triangle about one of its legs
    He then classified the cones in
    terms of their vertex angles as right
    angled, acute angled, or obtuse
    angled.
    A section of such a cone
    can be formed by cutting
    the cone by a plane at right
    angles to the generating
    line, the hypotenuse of the
    given right triangle.
    Three Types of
    Circular Cones
    1. Section of a Right-Angled Cone

    2. Section of an Obtuse-Angled Cone

    3. Section of an Acute-Angled Cone


    parabola
    hyperbola
    ellipse
    Apollonius decisive achievement
    was to show that all three curves
    could be obtained from any cone
    simply by varying the inclination
    at which the intersecting plane
    meets the generating line.
    Conic Sections
    A conic section is the
    intersection of a plane
    and a cone. By
    changing the angle and
    location of intersection,
    we can produce a
    circle, ellipse, parabola
    or hyperbola; or in the
    special case when the
    plane touches the
    vertex: a point, line or 2
    intersecting lines.
    CIRCLE ELLIPSE

    slice parallel to the slice not parallel to


    cone base the cone base
    PARABOLA HYPERBOLA

    slice parallel to the cone slice parallel to the cone


    angle axis (the line from the tip
    through the center of the
    base).
    The initial four books of the Conics
    make up a systematic exposition
    and improvement of much that was
    previously set forth.
    Apollonius treatment of the theory
    of conics was so admired that it was
    he, rather than Euclid, who in
    antiquity earned the title The Great
    Geometer.
    Prepared by Melissa Joy B. Feliciano

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