Theodorus of Cyrene (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ Κυρηναῖος, translit. Theódōros ho Kyrēnaîos; fl. c. 450 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician. The only first-hand...

composed of right triangles, placed edge-to-edge. It was named after Theodorus of Cyrene. The spiral is started with an isosceles right triangle, with each...

irrational number. It is also known as Theodorus' constant, after Theodorus of Cyrene, who proved its irrationality.[citation needed] In 2013, its numerical...

Theodorus "the Atheist" (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ ἄθεος, translit. Theódōros ho átheos; c. 340 – c. 250 BCE), of Cyrene, was a Greek philosopher of the Cyrenaic...

philosopher of music Simon of Cyrene, the man who helped carry the cross of Jesus Synesius (c. 373 – c. 414 AD), author and bishop of Ptolemais Theodorus (c....

Theaetetus and his teacher Theodorus of Cyrene. In the dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus attempt to come up with a definition of episteme, or knowledge,...

{2}}} , the square root of 2. Plato in his Theaetetus, describes how Theodorus of Cyrene (c. 400 BC) proved the irrationality of 3 {\displaystyle {\sqrt...

like Plato, was a student of the Greek mathematician Theodorus of Cyrene. Cyrene was a prosperous Greek colony on the coast of North Africa, in what is...

constant – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann Theodorus' constant (√3 ≅ ±1.732050807568877...) – Theodorus of Cyrene Tupper's number – Jeff Tupper Viswanath's...

exhaustion is the first step in the creation of calculus. Theodorus of Cyrene proved the irrationality of the surds of whole numbers up to 17, but stopped there...