The Fifth-Century BC Mathematician Whose Work on Lunes Was the First Successful Quadrature of a Curved Figure
Hippocrates of Chios was a Greek geometer of the late 5th century BC — not the famous physician of Cos. He was the first European mathematician to compute the exact area of a region bounded by curves, an achievement that opened the path Eudoxus and Archimedes would later complete with the method of exhaustion.
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