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The 14 pages that link to Apollonius of Perga, each with the reason it gives.

• EuclidRelated: Apollonius extended the Greek geometrical tradition that Euclid organized in the Elements.

• Conic sectionRelated: His work named and organized the principal conic curves.

• Analytic geometryRelated: His conics became major examples for later coordinate methods.

• Ancient Greek mathematicsRelated: His work made conic curves a major subject of Greek geometry.

• Greek mathematicsRelated: His treatment of conics extended Greek geometry beyond straight lines and circles.

• EquantRelated: His circle-based mathematical techniques formed part of the intellectual background to Ptolemaic models.

• Deferent and epicycleRelated: Ancient tradition associated him with the development of epicyclic methods.

• HypatiaRelated: A later source attributes a commentary on his work to Hypatia.

• HyperbolaRelated: His terminology and systematic treatment established the classical study of hyperbolas.

• Circle packingRelated: The classical Apollonius problem is an early tangency problem central to packing.

• Pappus of AlexandriaRelated: Pappus’s survey discusses Apollonius and the conic tradition his work shaped.

• History of geometryRelated: His work established the classical treatment of ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas.

• MenaechmusRelated: Apollonius’s later terminology and framework grew from the conic curves Menaechmus had identified.

• Apollonius's theoremRelated: The theorem bears his name, although its attribution to him is not firmly established.