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Lost Works of Mathematician Apollonius Hidden in Ancient Arabic Manuscript, Proof of Intellectual Exchange Apollonius, the Greek mathematician, was known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden University in the Netherlands.