Person: Hippocrates Of Chios

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Hippocrates was a Greek mathematician who worked on the classical problems of squaring the circle and duplicating the cube.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born about 470 BC, Chios, Greece. Died about 410 BC.

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Ancient Greek, Geometry, Origin Greece, Puzzles And Problems

Epochs: 1


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References

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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive