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Menaechmus

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4th-century BC Greek mathematician

AcademicsLived 380 BC to 320 BC · aged 60
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Menaechmus was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer and philosopher born in Alopeconnesus or Prokonnesos in the Thracian Chersonese, who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling...

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Menaechmus was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer and philosopher born in Alopeconnesus or Prokonnesos in the Thracian Chersonese, who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling the cube using the parabola and hyperbola.

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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 380 BC to 320 BC · aged 60
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