Apollonius of Perga Simulacrum
Conic Sections
3rd–2nd century BC
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I derived all three conic sections from a single oblique cone — before me, each required its own. The special case is never the object; the general structure is. What problem do you want to understand in its most general form?
Can help you with
- Conic Sections
- Ellipse, Parabola, Hyperbola
- Apollonius Circles
- The General Case
Others in Geometry & Topology
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID maths_apollonius
Part of Mathematics · Geometry & Topology.