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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 114,781 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Menaechmus is the 218th most popular mathematician (up from 220th in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Greece (up from 311th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Greek Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Menaechmus ranks 218 out of 823. Before him are Xu Guangqi, Hermann Schwarz, John Horton Conway, Tullio Levi-Civita, Pedro Nunes, and Hugo Steinhaus. After him are John Charles Fields, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Seymour Papert, and Lloyd Shapley.

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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 10. Before him are Hipparchia of Maroneia, Aristoxenus, Berossus, Nearchus, Eudemus of Rhodes, and Callippus. After him are Hegesias of Cyrene, Eurydice of Egypt, Gaius Duilius, Gnaeus Flavius, Aristo of Chios, and Diodorus Cronus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Menaechmus ranks 304 out of 936. Before him are Theodore Komnenos Doukas (1180), Naim Frashëri (1846), Cratinus (-500), Leonnatus (-356), Philip I of Macedon (-700), and Agis III (-350). After him are Alexios Komnenos (1106), Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1423), Terpander (-712), Diagoras of Melos (-450), Leonidas of Rhodes (-200), and Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Greece

Among mathematicians born in Greece, Menaechmus ranks 5. Before him are Hippocrates of Chios (-470), Meton of Athens (-500), Conon of Samos (-280), and Theaetetus (-417). After him are Aristyllus (-400), Diocles (-240), Dinostratus (-390), Geminus (null), Cahit Arf (1910), and Demetrios Christodoulou (1951).

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