MATHEMATICIAN

Conon of Samos

280 BC - 221 BC

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Conon of Samos (Greek: Κόνων ὁ Σάμιος, Konōn ho Samios; c. 280 – c. 220 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Conon of Samos has received more than 78,983 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Conon of Samos is the 178th most popular mathematician (down from 169th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Greece (down from 245th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Greek Mathematician.

Conon of Samos was a Greek mathematician and astronomer who lived in the 4th century BC. He is most famous for his discovery of the conic sections, which are curves that can be obtained by cutting a cone.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Conon of Samos ranks 178 out of 1,004. Before him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Marcel Grossmann, Jost Bürgi, Jean-Pierre Serre, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, and Édouard Lucas. After him are Ernst Zermelo, Leo Perutz, Rafael Bombelli, Ibn Yunus, James Gregory, and Menaechmus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 280 BC, Conon of Samos ranks 6. Before him are Li Si, Han Fei, Livius Andronicus, Philo of Byzantium, and Arsaces I of Parthia. After him are Pyrrhus II of Epirus, Nicomedes, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Ariamnes of Cappadocia. Among people deceased in 221 BC, Conon of Samos ranks 5. Before him are Ctesibius, Hasdrubal Barca, Berenice II of Egypt, and Antigonus III Doson. After him are Hasdrubal the Fair, Lucius Caecilius Metellus, and Sphaerus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Conon of Samos ranks 261 out of 1,024. Before him are Kyriakos Mitsotakis (1968), Philopoemen (-253), Georgios Papanikolaou (1883), Jean Moréas (1856), Alcamenes (-500), and Agathon (-448). After him are Andocides (-440), Cynisca (-430), Lycophron (-320), Rigas Feraios (1757), George Maniakes (998), and Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Greece

Among mathematicians born in Greece, Conon of Samos ranks 3. Before him are Hippocrates of Chios (-470), and Meton of Athens (-500). After him are Theaetetus (-417), Aristyllus (-400), Diocles (-240), Dinostratus (-390), Geminus (null), Cahit Arf (1910), Francesco Barozzi (1537), and Demetrios Christodoulou (1951).

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