Project Description

The Greeks represented the first "Golden Age" of mathematics. The foundations of logical method, proof and deduction. Their influence is as strong now as it was in the heady days of the Graeco-Roman empire. The Greeks are considered the cradle of modern mathematics, and the following mathematicians were the greatest of the Greeks.

The Great Mathematician series of projects is going to be a warts and all set of biographies of the life and times of some of the past three millenia's greatest mathematicians. Marvel at their stories that drove them through maths.

Pages proposed to cover:

• Greek Mathematics
• The Pythagorean Brotherhood
• Aristotle
• Xeno of Elea
• Hippocrates
• Eudoxos
• Eratosthenes
• Thales
• Archimedes
• Euclid
• Hypatia of Alexandria
• Diophantus

Contributing Researchers

Part of the h2g2 Mathematical Institute.

• Joanna Hypatia, Thales, Archimedes

Further Information Required

We need; writers, proof-readers, scouts, subbies and readability testers