Menaichmos (mathematician)
Menaichmos (* around 380 BC; † around 320 BC) was a Greek mathematician who lived around 360 BC. During his search for doubling the cube , he discovered conic sections , which he examined at Plato's Academy using a cone model. His brother, mathematician and geometer, was Deinostratos .
What is certain is that he discovered the parabola and the hyperbola . The terms for it were coined later by Apollonios von Perge .
literature
- Pedro Pablo Fuentes González: Ménaichmos. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Volume 4, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-271-06386-8 , pp. 401-407
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Menaechmus. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menaichmos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Discoverer of the parabola and the hyperbola |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 380 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 320 BC Chr. |