Full Name: Hippocrates of Chios

Lived Between: 470-410 BC

Nationality: Greek

Primary Occupation: Geometer

Claim to Fame: Hippocrates worked on the problems of squaring the circle duplicating the cube. Hippocrates was the first to square three of the four lunes, Quadrature of the circle was the prominent problem of Greek mathematics.

Recommended Book: Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics. New York: Wiley, pp. 1-20, 1990.

Recommended Link: Hippocrates Quadrature of the Lune