Mathematician:Nicomedes

Mathematician
Ancient Greek mathematician about whom almost nothing is known.

Creator of the conchoid.

Nationality
Greek

History

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

Theorems and Topics

 * Conchoid

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.