Hippocrates of Chios: Quick Facts


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Flourished c.460 BCE -
Subjects Of Study geometry • axiom

Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
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Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
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Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
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Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
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Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
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Archytas of Tarentum
Greek mathematician
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Theaetetus
Greek mathematician
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Menaechmus
Greek mathematician
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, 1966.
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
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Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
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Girard Desargues
French mathematician