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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

French philosopher and scientist

Girard Desargues

French mathematician

Colin Maclaurin

Scottish mathematician

Euclid

Greek mathematician

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

German mathematician

Paul Erdős

Hungarian mathematician

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician

Ibn al-Haytham

Arab astronomer and mathematician

Isaac Barrow

English mathematician

James Gregory

Scottish mathematician and astronomer

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