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Born c.380 BCE
Died c.320 BCE
Subjects Of Study conic section

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Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Archytas of Tarentum
Greek mathematician
Hippocrates of Chios
Greek mathematician
Conon of Samos
Greek mathematician
Theaetetus
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer

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