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Hippias (5)

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» Hippias
Wikipedia entry on this ancient polymath, including some material from the 1911 Britannica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias

http://www.cnu.edu/academics/phil/carr/HippiBio.htm

» Hippias Biography
Constructed from excerpts from various of Plato's dialogues which mention this Sophist.
http://www.cnu.edu/academics/phil/carr/HippiBio.htm

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hippias.html

» Hippias of Elis
Concise scholarly biography of this discoverer of the quadratrix, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hippias.html

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Quadratrix.html

» Hippias's Quadratrix
Some brief notes on Hippias' attempt to square the circle using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of pi."
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Quadratrix.html

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