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Hippocrates of Chios (Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος; c. 470 – c. 410 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer, and astronomer. He was born on the isle of Chios, where he was originally a merchant.
Hippocrates of Chios (flourished c. 440 bc) was a Greek geometer who compiled the first known work on the elements of geometry nearly a century before Euclid. Although the work is no longer extant, Euclid may have used it as a model for his Elements.
Learn about the life, achievements and contributions of Hippocrates of Chios, who taught geometry in Athens and wrote a textbook called the Elements. He also worked on the problems of squaring the circle and doubling the cube, and proposed theories about comets.
Hippocrates of Chios, the discoverer of the quadrature of the lune, ... was the first of whom it is recorded that he actually compiled "Elements". Hippocrates' book also included geometrical solutions to quadratic equations and included early methods of integration.
Hippocrates, born in the island of Chios, in Ionia, started, according to a tradition recorded in Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, as a merchant and came to Athens to prosecute pirates who had robbed him of all his goods.
Dec 24, 2016 · Hippocrates’s was the first known work on the elements of geometry, preceding Euclid’s Elements by about a century. He made significant discoveries in two of the three most important geometrical problems of ancient times, duplication of the cube and squaring the circle.
Hippocrates of Chios (Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος; c. 470 – c. 410 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer, and astronomer. He was born on the isle of Chios, where he was originally a merchant.
