Discoveries of Ancient Greek Mathematicians

By dsperry
  • 624 BCE

    Thales

    Early developments in geometry emerged in Greece during this time.
  • 570 BCE

    Pythagoras

    Pythagoras’ theorem first came about in Greece.
  • 428 BCE

    Plato

    Plato begins to classify "Platonic solids" and insists on proving methods of solving equations.
  • 410 BCE

    Eudoxus of Cnidus

    In Greece, the first area and volume equations are proven to be correct.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    The first developments of logic and deductive reasoning came about in Greece.
  • 300 BCE

    Euclid

    Euclidean geometry and the use of axioms, postulates, formulas, and proofs emerged in Greece.
  • 200 BCE

    Diophantus

    The first rational solutions were discovered with equations that include several unknowns.
  • 190 BCE

    Hipparchus

    In Greece, the first logical trigonometry table was created.
  • 10

    Heron of Alexandria

    In Greece, the equation for finding the area of a triangle from its side lengths was created.