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Archytas

Archytas

430 BC –345 BC

Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, Musicologist, Engineer, Politician

Lived 85 years

Born in
Taras
Passed away in
Taras

Archytas (; Greek: Ἀρχύτας; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in modern Apulia, 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 the universe in antiquity.

Notable works: The Harmonic, De viro bono et beato

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