Greek Mathematics

• Greek mathematics began from 6th century BC to the 5th century AD.
• Pythagoras, possibly one of Thales' students, made mathematics central to his philosophy which advocated, among other things, reincarnation in the belief that the soul, like numbers, was eternal and returned after death in other and still other forms.
• Plato and his school

  • Philosophical integration of mathematics.
  • Academy in Athens serving as hub mathematical exploration and discussion.

  
• Greek numbers had variety of different ways of writing own numbers.
• Thales is the first Greek who took any scientific interest in Mathematics.Contributions: proposition relating plane figures, intercept theorem, and thales theorem.

  
• Pythagoras worked with abstract geometric objects and numbers. Contributions - Pythagoras Theory, Square numbers, Pythagoras music.

  
• Democritus - famous atomist, introduced the idea of infinite number of points that make up line. Contributions: cone or pyramid has one third volume of a cylinder or prism.

  
• Aristotle - for him base of mathematics is logic but the nature of it relations is is specified by postulates.

  
• Hippocrates - one of the most outstanding figure in the history of medicine. Father of medicine.

  
• Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry"

  
• Archimedes is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in history, earning him the title of the "Father of Mathematics.