Hippias Philosophers Philosophy


Some brief notes on Hippias' attempt to square the circle using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of pi."








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See Also:
  • Hippias of Elis - Concise scholarly biography of this discoverer of the quadratrix, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics.
  • Hippias - Wikipedia entry on this ancient polymath, including some material from the 1911 Britannica.
  • Hippias's Quadratrix - Some brief notes on Hippias\\' attempt to square the circle h using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of h pi."


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