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Autolycus of Pitane

360 BC - 290 BC

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Autolycus of Pitane (Greek: Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; c. 360 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Autolycus of Pitane has received more than 74,702 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Autolycus of Pitane is the 214th most popular mathematician (down from 206th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 457th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Turkish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Autolycus of Pitane ranks 214 out of 1,004. Before him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Victor D'Hondt, Constantin Carathéodory, Hermann Schwarz, Étienne-Louis Malus, and Antoine Augustin Cournot. After him are Willem de Sitter, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Callippus, Michel Chasles, Xu Guangqi, and Henri Cartan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 360 BC, Autolycus of Pitane ranks 4. Before him are Callisthenes, Aristoxenus, and Arses of Persia. After him are Onesicritus, and Dionysius of Heraclea. Among people deceased in 290 BC, Autolycus of Pitane ranks 2. Before him is Megasthenes. After him are Dicaearchus, Onesicritus, and Neoptolemus II of Epirus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Autolycus of Pitane ranks 383 out of 1,347. Before him are Bâkî (1526), Kassia (810), Yeghishe Charents (1897), Cüneyt Arkın (1937), Themistius (317), and Missak Manouchian (1906). After him are John Tzetzes (1110), Irene Doukaina (1066), Aelius Aristides (117), Callippus (-370), Nicholas Mystikos (852), and Eunapius (349).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Türkiye

Among mathematicians born in Türkiye, Autolycus of Pitane ranks 7. Before him are Apollonius of Perga (-262), Eudoxus of Cnidus (-408), Al-Battani (858), Thābit ibn Qurra (836), Simplicius of Cilicia (490), and Menaechmus (-375). After him are Callippus (-370), Theon of Smyrna (70), Theodosius of Bithynia (-160), and Suzan Kahramaner (1913).

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