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(circa 262-190 BCE) A Greek mathematician whose innovative work in geometry can still be found in his extant works: On Conic Sections and On Section of a Ratio.
Apollonius coined the terms Ellipse, Parabola and Hyperbola and developed theories on Epicycles and Eccentrics to explain the orbits of the planets; he was born in Asia Minor and educated in Alexandria, Egypt.
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