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Diocles

240 BC - 180 BC

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Diocles (Ancient Greek: Διοκλῆς; c. 240 BC – c. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diocles has received more than 49,576 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Diocles is the 370th most popular mathematician (up from 413th in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from Greece (up from 500th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Greek Mathematician.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Diocles ranks 370 out of 1,004. Before him are Bruno Abakanowicz, Heisuke Hironaka, George Green, Otto Hesse, Roger Cotes, and Klaus Roth. After him are Caspar Wessel, Plato Tiburtinus, Yakov Sinai, Edward Kasner, Philipp Frank, and Felix Bernstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 240 BC, Diocles ranks 2. Before him is Diogenes of Babylon. After him is Lucius Valerius Flaccus. Among people deceased in 180 BC, Diocles ranks 5. Before him are Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Empress Lü, Emperor Houshao of Han, and Aristophanes of Byzantium. After him are Brihadratha Maurya, Demetrius I of Bactria, and Lucius Valerius Flaccus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Diocles ranks 454 out of 1,024. Before him are Victorinus of Pettau (250), Achilles Painter (-470), Nikolaos Plastiras (1883), Metrodorus of Chios (-500), John Aniston (1933), and Michael Glykas (1125). After him are Peter the Patrician (500), Tommy Lee (1962), Dionysios Solomos (1798), Clearchus of Sparta (-401), Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha (1855), and Koçi Xoxe (1911).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Greece

Among mathematicians born in Greece, Diocles ranks 6. Before him are Hippocrates of Chios (-470), Meton of Athens (-500), Conon of Samos (-280), Theaetetus (-417), and Aristyllus (-400). After him are Dinostratus (-390), Geminus (null), Cahit Arf (1910), Francesco Barozzi (1537), and Demetrios Christodoulou (1951).

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