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Hippocrates of Chios

470 BC - 410 BC

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Hippocrates of Chios (Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος; c. 470 – c. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippocrates of Chios has received more than 136,080 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hippocrates of Chios is the 102nd most popular mathematician (up from 108th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Greece and the most popular Greek Mathematician.

Hippocrates of Chios is most famous for his work on the quadrature of lunes. He was able to find the area of a lune with a circle by using the area of the lune and the area of the circle. He also found the area of a triangle with a circle by using the area of the triangle and the area of the circle.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hippocrates of Chios ranks 102 out of 823. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Christian Goldbach, Thomas Harriot, János Bolyai, Jean-Victor Poncelet, and Gabriel Cramer. After him are Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Lodovico Ferrari, John Couch Adams, Thābit ibn Qurra, John Wallis, and G. H. Hardy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 470 BC, Hippocrates of Chios ranks 7. Before him are Socrates, Aspasia, Mozi, Philolaus, Melissus of Samos, and Callicrates. After him are Achilles Painter and Teres I. Among people deceased in 410 BC, Hippocrates of Chios ranks 1. After him are Kresilas and Seuthes I.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hippocrates of Chios ranks 163 out of 936. Before him are Antonia Minor (-36), Andronicus of Rhodes (-100), Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Pherecydes of Syros (-580), Cleomenes I (-600), and Pittacus of Mytilene (-650). After him are Callisthenes (-360), Spyridon Louis (1873), Athenagoras I of Constantinople (1886), Panaetius (-185), Aeschines (-389), and Nicias (-500).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Greece

Among mathematicians born in Greece, Hippocrates of Chios ranks 1. After him are Meton of Athens (-500), Conon of Samos (-280), Theaetetus (-417), Menaechmus (-375), Aristyllus (-400), Diocles (-240), Dinostratus (-390), Geminus (null), Cahit Arf (1910), and Demetrios Christodoulou (1951).

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