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  1. Bryson of Heraclea: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i>

1. Bryson
Aristotle mentions bryson of heraclea, who was the son of Herodorus of Heraclea.Bryson was a Sophist and Aristotle criticises him both for his assertion
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Bryson of Heraclea
Born: about 450 BC in Heraclea (now Taranto, Italy)
Died:
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Plato and Aristotle both mention a mathematician called Bryson, but as is often the case, there is not complete agreement among scholars as to whether these refer to the same person or to two different people. Aristotle mentions Bryson of Heraclea, who was the son of Herodorus of Heraclea. Bryson was a Sophist and Aristotle criticises him both for his assertion that there is no such thing as indecent language, and also for his method of squaring the circle . We do know some details of this methods of squaring the circle and, despite the criticisms of Aristotle , it was an important step forward in the development of mathematics. Aristotle 's criticism appears to have been based on the fact that Bryson's proof used general principles rather than on geometric ones, but it is somewhat unclear exactly what Aristotle meant by this. Diogenes Laertius gives some other biographical details of Bryson, but these cannot all be correct since Bryson's interaction with a number of philosophers is stated, yet certain of these are impossible due to the dates during which these men lived. Perhaps the most likely of the details preserved by Diogenes Laertius is that Bryson was either a pupil of

2. Bryson Origins
bryson of heraclea, a mathematician of ancient Greece around 350 BC, who devised a new way of squaring a circle. Naturally, no modern Bryson
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3. B Index
bryson of heraclea (527) Buckminster Fuller, R (135*) Budan de Boislaurent (171)Buffon, Georges Comte de (1715*) Bugaev, Nicolay (622*)
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Names beginning with B
The number of words in the biography is given in brackets. A * indicates that there is a portrait. Babbage , Charles (2793*)
Bachelier
, Louis (1384*)
Bachet
, Claude (165)
Bachmann
, Paul (386*)
Backus
, John (542*)
Bacon
, Roger (657*)
Baer
, Reinhold (596*)
Baghdadi
, Abu al (947)
Baire

Baker, Alan

Baker, Henry
Ball, Robert ... Balmer , Johann (601*) Banach , Stefan (2533*) Banneker , Benjamin (892*) Banna , al-Marrakushi al (861) Banu Musa brothers Banu Musa, al-Hasan Banu Musa, Ahmad Banu Musa, Jafar ... bar Hiyya , Abraham (641) Barbier , Joseph Emile (637) Bari , Nina (403*) Barlow , Peter (623*) Barnes , Ernest (609*) Barocius , Franciscus (201) Barrow , Isaac (2332*) Barozzi , Francesco (201) Bartholin , Erasmus (189*) Batchelor , George (1035*) Bateman , Harry (1651*) Battaglini , Guiseppe (102*) Baudhayana Battani , Abu al- (1333*) Baxter , Agnes (624*) Bayes , Thomas (1539*) Beaugrand , Jean (222) Beaune , Florimond de (316) Beckenbach , Edwin (1243) Beg , Ulugh (1219*) Behnke , Heinrich (1886*) Bell, Eric Temple Bell, John Bellavitis , Giusto (762*) Beltrami , Eugenio (1057*) ben Ezra , Abraham (552) ben Gerson , Levi (268) ben Tibbon , Jacob (198) Bendixson , Ivar Otto (1208*) Benedetti , Giovanni (211) Benjamin , Thomas (1484*) Bergman , Stefan (311*) Berkeley , George (2008*) Bernays , Paul Isaac (772*) Bernoulli, Daniel

4. History Of Mathematics Chronology Of Mathematicians
Heraclides of Pontus (c. 390c. 322) bryson of heraclea (c 350?) Menaechmus (c. 350) *SB Theudius of Magnesia (c. 350?) Thymaridas (c. 350)
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5. BizLand
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6. History Of Mathematics Greece
Heraclides of Pontus (c. 390c. 322) bryson of heraclea (c 350?) Menaechmus (c. 350) Theudius of Magnesia (c. 350?) Thymaridas (c. 350)
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7. Bryson
bryson of heraclea. Born about 450 BC in Heraclea (now Taranto, Italy) Died ? Aristotle mentions bryson of heraclea, who was the son of Herodorus of Heraclea.
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Bryson of Heraclea
Born: about 450 BC in Heraclea (now Taranto, Italy)
Died:
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Plato and Aristotle both mention a mathematician called Bryson, but as is often the case, there is not complete agreement among scholars as to whether these refer to the same person or to two different people. Aristotle mentions Bryson of Heraclea, who was the son of Herodorus of Heraclea. Bryson was a Sophist and Aristotle criticises him both for his assertion that there is no such thing as indecent language, and also for his method of squaring the circle . We do know some details of this methods of squaring the circle and, despite the criticisms of Aristotle , it was an important step forward in the development of mathematics. Aristotle 's criticism appears to have been based on the fact that Bryson's proof used general principles rather than on geometric ones, but it is somewhat unclear exactly what Aristotle meant by this. Diogenes Laertius gives some other biographical details of Bryson, but these cannot all be correct since Bryson's interaction with a number of philosophers is stated, yet certain of these are impossible due to the dates during which these men lived. Perhaps the most likely of the details preserved by Diogenes Laertius is that Bryson was either a pupil of

8. The History Of Pi
Antiphon and bryson of heraclea came up with the innovative idea of inscribing a polygon inside a circle, finding its area, and doubling the
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9. History Of Mathematics: Greece
322); bryson of heraclea (c 350?) Menaechmus (c. 350); Theudius of Magnesia (c.350?) Thymaridas (c. 350); Dinostratus (c. 350); Speusippus (d.
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Greece
Cities
  • Abdera: Democritus
  • Alexandria : Apollonius, Aristarchus, Diophantus, Eratosthenes, Euclid , Hypatia, Hypsicles, Heron, Menelaus, Pappus, Ptolemy, Theon
  • Amisus: Dionysodorus
  • Antinopolis: Serenus
  • Apameia: Posidonius
  • Athens: Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Socrates, Theaetetus
  • Byzantium (Constantinople): Philon, Proclus
  • Chalcedon: Proclus, Xenocrates
  • Chalcis: Iamblichus
  • Chios: Hippocrates, Oenopides
  • Clazomenae: Anaxagoras
  • Cnidus: Eudoxus
  • Croton: Philolaus, Pythagoras
  • Cyrene: Eratosthenes, Nicoteles, Synesius, Theodorus
  • Cyzicus: Callippus
  • Elea: Parmenides, Zeno
  • Elis: Hippias
  • Gerasa: Nichmachus
  • Larissa: Dominus
  • Miletus: Anaximander, Anaximenes, Isidorus, Thales
  • Nicaea: Hipparchus, Sporus, Theodosius
  • Paros: Thymaridas
  • Perga: Apollonius
  • Pergamum: Apollonius
  • Rhodes: Eudemus, Geminus, Posidonius
  • Rome: Boethius
  • Samos: Aristarchus, Conon, Pythagoras
  • Smyrna: Theon
  • Stagira: Aristotle
  • Syene: Eratosthenes
  • Syracuse: Archimedes
  • Tarentum: Archytas, Pythagoras
  • Thasos: Leodamas
  • Tyre: Marinus, Porphyrius
Mathematicians
  • Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550)

10. GottliebMath Pi History
of Heraclea inscribed a polygon in a circle and calculated the area of successive polygons as the number of sides increased. bryson of heraclea
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11. History Of Mathematics: Chronology Of Mathematicians
322); bryson of heraclea (c 350?) Menaechmus (c. 350) *SB; Theudius of Magnesia (c.350?) Thymaridas (c. 350); Dinostratus (fl. c.
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Chronological List of Mathematicians
Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China , and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere Europe Greece India , and Japan
Table of Contents
1700 B.C.E. 100 B.C.E. 1 C.E. To return to this table of contents from below, just click on the years that appear in the headers. Footnotes (*MT, *MT, *RB, *W, *SB) are explained below
List of Mathematicians
    1700 B.C.E.
  • Ahmes (c. 1650 B.C.E.) *MT
    700 B.C.E.
  • Baudhayana (c. 700)
    600 B.C.E.
  • Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550) *MT
  • Apastamba (c. 600)
  • Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610-c. 547) *SB
  • Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 490) *SB *MT
  • Anaximenes of Miletus (fl. 546) *SB
  • Cleostratus of Tenedos (c. 520)
    500 B.C.E.
  • Katyayana (c. 500)
  • Nabu-rimanni (c. 490)
  • Kidinu (c. 480)
  • Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500-c. 428) *SB *MT
  • Zeno of Elea (c. 490-c. 430) *MT
  • Antiphon of Rhamnos (the Sophist) (c. 480-411) *SB *MT
  • Oenopides of Chios (c. 450?) *SB
  • Leucippus (c. 450) *SB *MT
  • Hippocrates of Chios (fl. c. 440) *SB
  • Meton (c. 430) *SB

12. Bryson
bryson of heraclea
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13. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results
bryson of heraclea Born about 450 BC in Heraclea (now Taranto, Italy) Died ?Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically)
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14. Biography Of Bryson Of Heraclea
Biography of bryson of heraclea
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15. The History Of Pi
Antiphon and bryson of heraclea came up with the innovative idea of inscribinga polygon inside a circle, finding its area, and doubling the sides over and
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/courses/436/436-s00/Papers2000/wilson.html
The History of Pi
David Wilson
History of Mathematics
Rutgers, Spring 2000
Throughout the history of mathematics, one of the most enduring challenges has been the calculation of the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter, which has come to be known by the Greek letter pi . From ancient Babylonia to the Middle Ages in Europe to the present day of supercomputers, mathematicians have been striving to calculate the mysterious number. They have searched for exact fractions, formulas, and, more recently, patterns in the long string of numbers starting with 3.14159 2653..., which is generally shortened to 3.14. William L. Schaaf once said, "Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi" (Blatner, 1). We will probably never know who first discovered that the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter is constant, nor will we ever know who first tried to calculate this ratio. The people who initiated the hunt for pi were the Babylonians and Egyptians, nearly 4000 years ago. It is not clear how they found their approximation for pi, but one source (Beckman) makes the claim that they simply made a big circle, and then measured the circumference and diameter with a piece of rope. They used this method to find that

16. Full Alphabetical Index
Francesco Fa di (521*) Bruno, Giuseppe (297) Bruno, Giordano (1891*) Bruns, Heinrich (90*) bryson of heraclea (527) Buckminster Fuller, R
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17. GottliebMath: Pi: History
bryson of heraclea was the first person to try to calculate pi using a valuegreater than that of pi and one below pi (by inscribing and circumscribing
http://www.joshgott.com/gottliebmath/pi/history.html
GOTTLIEBMATH:PI:HISTORY History Page *Pi to 100 decimal places This page lists the main events in the history of, what is, in my opinion, the most important number that exists: the irrational, transcendental ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter known to the world as Click here for the main page Click here for a list of formulas to calculate I would like to thank all of the references where I got much of the information for this page. Welcome to... THE PI HISTORY PAGE VERY EARLY PI (up to c. 500 BCE) THE GREEKS (c. 500 BCE to c. 0) PROGRESS IN ASIA (c. to c. 1000 CE) DIGITS GALORE! (c. 1000 CE to c. 1900 CE) ... THE ELECTRONIC AGE (1946 CE to present) VERY EARLY PI (up to c. 500 BCE) Back to Index of Time
  • The first known mention of the ratio of circumference to diameter was written by Ahmes, an Egyptian scribe around 1650 BCE on the Rhind Papyrus. He implied that pi=256/81=3.16049..., less than 1% greater than our current value of 3.141592...! Even though he figured out a value for pi, it is doubtful he knew how to use it for circumference: the Rhind Papyrus talks about making a square whose area is equal to a circle's by using 8/9 of the diameter as one side. But the rest of the world didn't learn of his discovery: By 650 BCE, the Babylonians and the Jews were still using 3 for pi. In fact, the bible declares that the value of pi is 3: "Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim [diameter], round in compass....and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about [circumference]."

18. Table Of Contents
HIPPIAS OF ELIS. THE ODOROS OF CYRENE. ANTIPHON THE SOPHIST. bryson of heraclea. ASTRONOMY. PARMENIDES OF ELEA. PHILOLAOS OF CROTON. HICETAS
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19. Bryson Family Ancestors
Bryson Origins the name was bryson of heraclea, a Bryson. One creditabletheory has some similarity to the missionary legend.
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20. ORIGIN RESEARCH
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