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Apollonius of Perga
Apollonius of Perga was an ancient Greek geometer and astronomer known for his work on conic sections. Beginning from the earlier contributions of Euclid and Archimedes on the topic, he brought them to the state prior to the invention of analytic geometry. His definitions of the terms ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola are the ones in use today. With his predecessors Euclid and Archimedes, Apolloniu…
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science · Ancient Greek geometer and astronomer (c. 240–190 BC) · mathematician · astronomer · also Apollonius of Perga, Perga
Born 262 BC · Died 190 BC · Q180109
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2026· 2 entries
Nature: Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes” in Journal of Great Lakes Research — cited 258 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Tracking a century of changes in microbial eukaryotic diversity in lakes driven by nutrient enrichment and climate warming” in Environmental Microbiology — cited 76 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Global spread of hypoxia in freshwater ecosystems during the last three centuries is caused by rising local human pressure” in Global Change Biology — cited 376 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Assessing the reliability of fatty acid–specific stable isotope analysis for trophic studies” in Methods in Ecology and Evolution — cited 74 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Cholesterol Loss Enhances TrkB Signaling in Hippocampal Neurons Aging in Vitro” in Molecular Biology of the Cell — cited 90 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Published “The role of seladin‐1/DHCR24 in cholesterol biosynthesis, APP processing and Aβ generation in vivo” in The EMBO Journal — cited 139 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “‘Are fish what they eat’ all year round?” in Oecologia — cited 233 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Neuronal membrane cholesterol loss enhances amyloid peptide generation” in The Journal of Cell Biology — cited 273 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Using the δ<sup>13</sup>C and δ<sup>15</sup>N of whitefish scales for retrospective ecological studies: changes in isotope signatures during the restoration of Lake Geneva, 1980–2001” in Journal of Fish Biology — cited 75 times.
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1952· 1 entry
As part of the Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World series
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1941· 1 entry
Ivor Thomas translated the portions of Conics Book I that define the sections as part of his two volume edition of Ancient Greek mathematics for the Loeb Classical Library
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1890· 1 entry
Or before, who applied it to La Géométrie of René Descartes, the first full-blown work of analytic geometry
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