History of geometry

Menaechmus

Menaechmus (Greek: Μέναιχμος, 380–320 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer and philosopher born in Alopeconnesus or Prokonnesos in the Thracian Chersonese, who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling the cube using the parabola and hyperbola. (Wikipedia).

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Hyperbola | Quadratrix | Ellipse | Eratosthenes | Conic section | List of geometers | Dinostratus | Parabola | Doubling the cube | Proclus