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Menaechmus is
remembered by
mathematicians for his
discovery of the
conic sections and his
solution to the
problem of
doubling the cube.
Menaechmus likely...
- The
Brothers Menaechmus or The Two Menaechmuses. The
Menaechmi is a
comedy about mistaken identity,
involving a set of twins,
Menaechmus of Epi****us...
- frg. B29 of his
orations and
Philippics 2.77;
Bertocchi and Maraldi, "
Menaechmus quidam," p. 95.
Alastair J. L. Blanshard, "Gr**** Love," in ****: Vice and...
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playwright Plautus' (c. 254 – 184 BCE)
Menaechmi includes a
scene in
which Menaechmus I puts on his wife's dress, then
wears a
cloak over it,
intending to remove...
- geometry",
according to Proclus. The same
sentence is also
attributed to
Menaechmus replying to
Alexander the Great.
Charles Sanders Peirce, in his s:How...
- This
anecdote is
questionable since a very
similar interaction between Menaechmus and
Alexander the
Great is
recorded from Stobaeus. Both
accounts were...
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sometimes been
maintained that
Menaechmus had
analytic geometry. Such a
judgment is
warranted only in part, for
certainly Menaechmus was
unaware that any equation...
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early work in
graph theory. 4th
century BC:
Menaechmus discovers conic sections. 4th
century BC:
Menaechmus develops co-ordinate geometry. 4th century...
- to
Menaechmus, who
lived in
Athens in the late
fourth century BC. Proclus,
quoting Eratosthenes,
refers to "the
conic section triads of
Menaechmus." Since...
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Dicaearchus Dinostratus Eudemus Eudoxus Hippasus Hippias Hippocrates Leon
Menaechmus Oenopides Philolaus Philon Theaetetus Theodorus Thymaridas Xenocrates...
