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Menaechmus

375 BC –300 BC

Mathematician, Astronomer

Lived 75 years

Born in
Alokopennesos
Passed away in
Cyzicus

Menaechmus (Greek: Μέναιχμος, c. 380 – c. 320 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer and philosopher born in Alopeconnesus or Prokonnesos in the Thracian Chersonese, who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling the cube using the parabola and hyperbola.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menaechmus