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The Footnote June 25, 2026 · Chios

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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The Footnote June 25, 2026 · Cos

The Other Greek Hippocrates Who Wrote the Hippocratic Oath and Was Not the Mathematician

Hippocrates of Cos and Hippocrates of Chios were near-contemporaries — both Greek, both prominent in their fields, both with the same first name — and were occasionally confused even by ancient sources. One founded the European medical tradition; the other wrote the first textbook of European geometry.

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