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Military – expanded Greek empire all the way to the Indus River Valley in India. Student of Aristotle. Alexander the Great! . Geometry wizard: A2 +B2 = C2 and Value of Pi (570 - 495 BCE) Samos Has a math theorem named after him to find the size of a triangle. Pythagoras.
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Military – expanded Greek empire all the way to the Indus River Valley in India Student of Aristotle
Geometry wizard: A2 +B2 = C2 and Value of Pi (570 - 495 BCE) SamosHas a math theorem named after him to find the size ofa triangle
Geometry (330 – 260 BCE) Alexandria • Compasses, protractors, and angles
Engineer and inventor-scientist, built an irrigation screw for the mountainous terrain and the catapult (287 - 212 BCE) Sicily • EUREKA! I also figured out buoyancy and density in the bathtub!
Known as the founder of the subject of Philosophy, taught both Plato and Aristotle • phi·los·o·phynoun\fə-ˈlä-s(ə-)fē\ • : the study of ideas about knowledge, truth, the nature and meaning of life, etc. • : a particular set of ideas about knowledge, truth, the nature and meaning of life, etc. • : a set of ideas about how to do something or how to live
Charismatic orator, military general and statesman (i.e. politician))495-429 B.C.E.Athens
Writer (Tragedies mostly)480 – 406 BCEAegean Islands/Macedonia • Author of Medea
Singer/Writer~800 BCEAuthor of Famous Greek Epics about the Trojan War (Illiad and Odyssey)