Mathematician:Menelaus of Alexandria

Mathematician
Greek mathematician and astronomer whose most important (and indeed, only surviving) work was in the field of spherical geometry.

Very little is known about him.

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: c. 70 CE, possibly in Alexandria, Egypt
 * Died: c. 130 or 140 CE

Theorems

 * Menelaus' Theorem

Publications

 * c. 110:, which survives in an Arabic translation

Several other works of his are known about, but unfortunately appear not to have survived:
 * On the Calculation of the Chords in a Circle
 * On the Knowledge of the Weights and Distribution of Different Bodies
 * The Book on the Triangle
 * Elements of Geometry (translated into Arabic by )