# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/apollonius-of-perga
# Generated: 2026-09-03T17:07:42.782Z

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name: "Apollonius of Perga"
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description: "He gave us the words we still use — ellipse, parabola, hyperbola — and carried the study of conic sections further than anyone before calculus existed. A geometer working around 200 BC whose definitions outlasted empires."
tagline: "Ancient Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections"
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deathDate: "-190"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Apollonius built on what Euclid and Archimedes had started, taking the geometry of conic sections to a peak that wouldn't be surpassed until analytic geometry arrived centuries later. Most of his work beyond geometry — including astronomy — is lost, known only through fragments cited by later writers like Pappus. He proposed that planets moved in eccentric orbits to account for their strange wanderings across the sky, a model that held through the Middle Ages before the Renaissance swept it aside. A crater on the Moon carries his name now.