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Menaechmus

4th-century BC Greek mathematician · Academics · Lived 380 BC to 320 BC · aged 60

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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Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 380 BC to 320 BC · aged 60