Mathematician:Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad") was a Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle.

Importantly documents the philosophy of Socrates.

Of particular importance was his insistence on the idea of proof.
 * "The development of Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato." -- Alfred North Whitehead

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: 428 or 427 B.C.E., Athens, Greece
 * Died: 348 or 347 B.C.E., Athens, Greece

Theorems and Definitions

 * The Platonic Solids

Writings
35 dialogues and 13 letters, although there is doubt as to whether he actually wrote all of them.

They are conventionally arranged into groups of four books:

Works marked (?) are those over which no consensus can be reached over whether Plato was actually the author.

Works marked (!) are those which are generally believed nowadays that Plato did not write them.

The following works were at one time accredited to Plato, but even in antiquity had been determined to have been written by others. They all form the body of his works labelled as Notheuomenoi (i.e. "spurious") or Apocrypha.


 * Axiochus
 * Definitions
 * Demodocus
 * Epigrams
 * Eryxias
 * Halcyon
 * On Justice
 * On Virtue
 * Sisyphus