Archytas
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title:
Archytas
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Archytas was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato. As a Pythagorean, Archytas believed that arithmetic (logistic), rather than geometry, provided the basis for satisfactory proofs, and developed the most famous argument for the infinity of
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4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and statesman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archytas
date created:
2003-06-10T09:35:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T06:27:32Z
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