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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.
Hippocrates of Chios was a Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer. He grew up on the island of Chios, which is the fifth largest of the Greek islands and is much closer to Turkey than to Greece, and later moved to Athens.
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 of Chios 470 BC – 410 BC. Hippocrates was a teacher of geometry in Athens. He is known for working on the classical problem of squaring the circle and also the problem of duplicating the cube.
Hippocrates of Chios, the first writer of Elements, who also made himself famous by his quadrature of lunes, his reduction of the duplication of the cube to the problem of finding two mean proportionals, and his proof that the areas of circles are in the ratio of the squares
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Hippocrates of Chios (updated) Born Chios (Khíos, Greece), circa 470 BCE. Died Athens, (Greece), circa 410 BCE. Hippocrates was a Greek geometer and astronomer whose works are known only through references by later authors.
According to Proclus, Hippocrates was first to compile an ‘Elements’ of geometry, which would appear to have anticipated substantial parts of *Euclid's books 1, 3, and 6. In *astronomy, Hippocrates was known for a theory of comets, reported by Aristotle (Mete. 1. 6).
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Jan 1, 2023 · Hippocrates of Chios—not to be confused with his namesake, the physician Hippocrates of Kos—lived in the second half of the fifth century BC. He was a somewhat naive businessman who lost his fortune and therefore moved to Athens for studies.
Mathematician, geometer and astronomer. The first to write a systematic textbook on geometry, Elements of Geometry, only a fragment of which survives. Invented the technique of reduction, that is, transforming a mathematical problem into a more general, easily solvable one.
