Mathematician:Pappus of Alexandria

Mathematician
One of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity.

Very little is known about him, except that he flourished at around 320 CE through dint of the eclipse of the sun in Alexandria in that year which he discussed in his commentary on 's.

Noted for his multi-volume Collection, and for Pappus's Hexagon Theorem.

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: c. 290 CE, Alexandria, Egypt
 * Died: c. 350 CE

Theorems and Definitions

 * Pappus's Hexagon Theorem
 * Pappus's Centroid Theorem
 * Pythagoras's Theorem for Parallelograms


 * Focus-Directrix Property of Conic Sections
 * Pappus Chain
 * Pappus Configuration
 * Pappus Graph

Books and Papers

 * c. 320: Commentary on 's.


 * c. 340:


 * A commentary on.

There are also various other works, now lost, which are mentioned elsewhere in the literature of the time.