Mathematician:Aristaeus the Elder

Differentiated by Pappus of Alexandria from another later Aristaeus whose existence is no longer recorded.

Did considerable work on conic sections, but this was rendered obsolete by subsequent work by Apollonius.

Proved that "the same circle circumscribes both the pentagon of the dodecahedron and the triangle of the icosahedron inscribed in the same sphere."

Nationality
Greek

History

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

Books and Papers

 * Five Books concerning Solid Loci, referred by Pappus. Probably also the same book as that referred to by a later writer as Five Books concerning Conic Sections
 * Concerning the Comparison of Five Regular Solids