Hippocrates mathematician biography videos

Hippocrates of Chios was a Greek mathematician who followed Pythagoras and lived around BCE. He was a contemporary of the more famous Hippocrates.

The mathematician Hippocrates lived years before Euclid....

Hippocrates of Chios

5th-century BC Greek mathematician and astronomer

This article is about the mathematician. For the Ancient Greek doctor, see Hippocrates.

Hippocrates of Chios (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος; c.

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Hippocrates was a physician born in ancient Greece and is largely considered to be the father of modern medicine.

Join us as we take a dive into the history book and learn about the origins of the "Father of Medicine" Hippocrates.

The mathematician Hippocrates lived years before Euclid.

Mathematician, and senator.

Hippocrates, ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece's Classical period and is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine.

BC) was an ancient Greekmathematician, geometer, and astronomer.

He was born on the isle of Chios, where he was originally a merchant. After some misadventures (he was robbed by either pirates or fraudulent customs officials) he went to Athens, possibly for litigation, where he became a leading mathematician.

On Chios, Hippocrates may have been a pupil of the mathematician and astronomer Oenopides of Chios. In his mathematical work there probably was some Pythagorean influence too, perhaps via contacts between Chios and the neighboring island of Samos, a center of Pythagorean thinking: Hippocrates has been described as a 'para-Pythagorean', a philosophical 'fellow traveler'.

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