Kosovska Mitrovica
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Kosovska Mitrovica (Albanian: Mitrovicë), Serbia/Serbia and MontenegroDimitrovica, Mitrovica, Titova Mitrovica Developed round the church of the warrior saint St Demetrius after whom the town is named. In 1948
Titova ‘Tito's’ was added to the name in honour of Josip Broz Tito
†. It was dropped in 1992 and replaced by
Kosovska to denote its location in Kosovo and to distinguish it from
Sremska Mitrovica in the Srem region of Serbia.
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1st update of Great Books may be the last // 60 volumes cover all of Western thinking
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/23/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...as Fourier's "Analytical Theory of Heat" and Apollonius of Perga's "On Conic Sections." But aha. You will find...from the original: In addition to Fourier's and Apollonius', Fielding's Tom Jones and Sterne's Tristram...
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"GREAT BOOKS' REVISITED CRITICS DECRY LACK OF WOMEN, MINORITIES.(Show)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/18/1990; 700+ words
; ...gap left by the three other books that have been banished from the collection: Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," Joseph Fourier's "Analytical Theory of Heat," and Apollonius of Perga's "Conics." Of those four castoffs, A
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The clockwork computer; The Antikythera mechanism.(New light on ancient Greek technology)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model derived by Apollonius of Perga. (These models, which predate the mechanism, were subsequently incorporated into the work of Claudius Ptolemy...
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Anne Arundel Community Events June 3-10, 2004
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/3/2004; 700+ words
; ...jugbay.org. MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE, "Classical Mathematics and Its Transformation," focusing on works by Apollonius of Perga, who greatly influenced the development of mathematics, speakers include Burt Hopkins, Seattle University; Harvey...
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Wised up Thousands of Americans bought into the intellectual with the Great Books series
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/16/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Great Idea at the Time": the improbable story of thousands of Americans eager to purchase such abstruse items as Apollonius of Perga's "On Conic Sections." Perhaps picking up on the enthusiasms of the time, Hutchins, unlikely populist that...
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Using projects to implement mathematics standards.
Magazine article from: The Clearing House; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...things you learned while doing research for your poster. You will sign up for one of the following mathematicians: Apollonius of Perga Archimedes Jerome Cardan Bonaventura Cavalieri Rene Descartes Diophantus Eratosthenes Euclid Leonhard Euler Pierre...
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An early history of difficult multiplication and division.
Magazine article from: Australian Senior Mathematics Journal; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...about 320-250 BC) a Greek astronomer who was born in Samos, and the work of Apollonius (about 261-190 BC), a Greek mathematician who was born in Perga on the southern coast of what is now Turkey. Hipparchus (about 190-120 BC) of...
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Apollonius of Perga
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Apollonius of Perga The Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga (active 210 B.C.) was known as the "Great Geometer...mathematical notation, is Thomas L. Heath, ed., Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections (1896). Apollonius...
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Apolloniusof Perga
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Apolloniusof Perga (c.262–c.190bc)Greekmathematician, born...appreciated by later astronomers such as E. Halley , who translated Apollonius' book Conics . Apollonius also originated the mathematical concept of motion based on...
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Hypsicles of Alexandria
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...father. Together they studied a tract by Apollonius of Perga on the dodecahedron and the icosahedron...x2019; father was an older contemporary of Apollonius, living at Alexandria. As Apollonius died early in the second century B.C...
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Hypatia
Book article from: Mathematics
...for integral solutions to linear equations , and Apollonius's Conic Sections. Hypatia also edited the Almagest...Alexandria were burned by Arab invaders. see also Apollonius of Perga. Shirley B. Gray Bibliography Deakin, Michael...
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Diocles
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Eudoxus, Menaechmus, Eratosthenes, Nicomedes, Apollonius, Hero, and Philo of Byzantium. All of these...the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. Apollonius of Perga, a mathematician who was born about 262 b.c...
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