Mathematician:Nicomedes

Mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician about whom almost nothing is known.

Creator of the curve now known as the Conchoid of Nicomedes, which he used for Doubling the Cube.

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: c. 280 BC in Greece
 * Died: c. 210 BC

Theorems and Topics

 * Conchoid of Nicomedes

Publications

 * On Conchoid Lines

Critical View

 * .. prided himself inordinately on his discovery of this curve, contrasting it with Eratosthenes's mechanism for finding any number of mean proportionals, to which he objected formally and at length on the ground that it was impracticable and entirely outside the spirit of geometry.