Theaetetus (mathematician)
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Theaetetus (mathematician)
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Theaetetus of Athens, possibly the son of Euphronius of the Athenian deme Sunium, was a Greek mathematician. His principal contributions were on irrational lengths, which was included in Book X of Euclid's Elements and proving that there are precisely five regular convex polyhedra. A friend of Socrates and Plato, he is the central character in Plato's eponymous Socratic dialogue. Theaetetus, like Plato, was a student of the Greek mathematician Theodorus of Cyrene. Cyrene was a prosperous Greek c
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Greek mathematician (c.417–c. 369 BCE)
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2005-04-11T04:14:50Z
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2024-08-31T14:49:31Z
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