Archytas of Tarentum
about 428 BC - about 350 BC
Click the picture above
to see two larger pictures
Archytas was a Greek mathematician, statesman and philosopher who worked on the harmonic mean and the problem of duplicating the cube.
Mathematicians born in the same country
| Honours awarded to Archytas (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Lunar features | Crater Archytas and Rima Archytas |
Other Web sites
| Previous | (Chronologically) | Next | Main Index |
| Previous | (Alphabetically) | Next | Biographies index |
JOC/EFR © April 1999
The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Archytas.html