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Menaechmus

375 BC - 300 BC

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Menaechmus (Greek: Μέναιχμος, 380–320 BC) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menaechmus has received more than 113,957 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Menaechmus is the 184th most popular mathematician (up from 218th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 304th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Mathematician.

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  • 60.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Menaechmus has had the most page views in the with 12,250 views, followed by Spanish (7,069), and Italian (2,148). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (190.00%), Armenian (72.05%), and Bavarian (66.55%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Menaechmus ranks 184 out of 1,004. Before him are Conon of Samos, Ernst Zermelo, Leo Perutz, Rafael Bombelli, Ibn Yunus, and James Gregory. After him are Vito Volterra, Jan Łukasiewicz, Ahmes, Georg von Peuerbach, Jean Gaston Darboux, and Hermann Grassmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 375 BC, Menaechmus ranks 3. Before him are Olympias, and Chanakya. After him is Aristobulus of Cassandreia. Among people deceased in 300 BC, Menaechmus ranks 9. Before him are Wang Jian, Aristoxenus, Berossus, Nearchus, Hipparchia of Maroneia, and Eudemus of Rhodes. After him are Aristo of Chios, Hegesias of Cyrene, Callippus, Mithridates II of Pontus, Eurydice of Egypt, and Gaius Duilius.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Menaechmus ranks 358 out of 1,347. Before him are Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (1845), Gülçiçek Hatun (1355), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (100), Boris II of Bulgaria (931), Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha (1637), and Fan Noli (1882). After him are Alcman (-611), Isabella, Queen of Armenia (1216), Theophanes the Greek (1340), Stephanus of Byzantium (501), Ertuğrul Osman (1912), and Philetaerus (-340).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Türkiye

Among mathematicians born in Türkiye, Menaechmus ranks 6. Before him are Apollonius of Perga (-262), Eudoxus of Cnidus (-408), Al-Battani (858), Thābit ibn Qurra (836), and Simplicius of Cilicia (490). After him are Autolycus of Pitane (-360), Callippus (-370), Theon of Smyrna (70), Theodosius of Bithynia (-160), and Suzan Kahramaner (1913).

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