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Hippocrates of Chios
5th-century BC Greek mathematician and astronomer
This article is about the mathematician. For the Ancient Greek doctor, see Hippocrates.
Hippocrates of Chios (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος; c.
470 – c. 421 BC) was an ancient Greekmathematician, geometer, and astronomer.
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He was born on the isle of Chios, where he was originally a merchant. After some misadventures (he was robbed by either pirates or fraudulent customs officials) he went to Athens, possibly for litigation, where he became a leading mathematician.
On Chios, Hippocrates may have been a pupil of the mathematician and astronomer Oenopides of Chios. In his mathematical work there probably was some Pythagorean influence too, perhaps via contacts between Chios and the neighboring island of Samos, a center of Pythagorean thinking: Hippocrates has been described as a 'para-Pythagorean', a philosophical 'fellow traveler'.
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