42. Hippocrates of Chios

42. HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS

Hippocrates of Chios flourished during the latter half of the fifth century B.C.

(Aeschylus was the name of one of his pupils).

He was the first to write a text-book of mathematics, called the Elements. Parts of it were incorporated by Simplicius in his Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle; but the work itself is lost.