Diocles
about 240 BC - about 180 BC | |||||||||
Diocles was a Greek mathematician who was the first to prove the focal property of a parabolic mirror and studied the cissoid curve as part of an attempt to duplicate the cube. | |||||||||
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Mathematicians born in the same country
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