Mathematician:Eudemus of Rhodes

Mathematician
Ancient Greek philosopher, considered the first historian of science.

A pupil of, who edited and interpreted his teacher's work so as to make it more easily accessible.

Not to be confused with Eudemus of Cyprus, who was the subject of a work by.

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: about 370 BCE in Greece
 * Died: about 300 BCE

Publications
While we know about these works, only fragments survive.


 * On the Angle, which was referred to by


 * Άριθμητικὴ ἱστορία (History of Arithmetics) in $2$ or more volumes, referenced by


 * Γεωμετρικὴ ἱστορία (History of Geometry) in $2$ or more volumes, referenced widely by later writers. Our knowledge of the work by on the Lune of Hippocrates is known only via here.


 * Άστρολογικὴ ἱστορία (History of Astronomy) in $2$ or more volumes, again referenced widely by later writers. The eclipse of the sun predicted by appears here. Also contains the work by  on concentric spheres.


 * Physics, a work in possibly 4 volumes, based on the work by.


 * On Discourse and possibly two other works on logic.

There are two other works which may also have been by Eudemus, but whose authorship is uncertain:
 * History of Theology
 * History of Lindos

Also known as
In Greek: Εὔδημος.