Apollonio di Perge

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He was a Greek distinguished mathematician, astronomer and engineer of the Classic Age; he was known as the Great Geometrer . He spent a part of his live at Pergamon and before, at Alexandria where probably teached mathematics at the Museum. He was author of several studies on the conical sections and treatises of phisics and geometry known as Perì paradoxon mesantmaton Paradoxes in mechanics), whose treatises just few passages reached present days.

variant spelling:
Apollonio di Perge

Curriculum vitae

3. century BC		he wrote the treatise Perì paradoxon mesantmaton
3. century BC		he is active in Pergamon
3. century BC		he teaches in Alessandria
† ?	Murtina	died
* ?	Perga	born

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=8208004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_8208004.html

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