When1: -450
When2: -410
Who: Hippocrates of Chios
What: mathematician
Where: Athens, Greece
Detail: He lived -470 to -410 and wrote first geometry text, first calculated curved area using rectilinear figures {quadrature, Hippocrates}, and first proved theorems using earlier theorems {pyramiding theorems}. He invented method of proving something by disproving its opposite {indirect proof, Hippocrates}.
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