Theon of Smyrna (Greek: Θέων ὁ ΣμυρναῖοςTheon ho Smyrnaios, gen. Θέωνος Theonos; fl. 100 CE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose works were strongly influenced by the Pythagorean school of thought. His surviving On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato is an introductory survey of Greek mathematics.
TheonofSmyrna (Greek: Θέων ὁ Σμυρναῖος Theon ho Smyrnaios, gen. Θέωνος Theonos; fl. 100 CE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose works were...
Crows; On the Rising of the Dog[-Star]; and On the Inundation of the Nile. Agora (film) TheonofSmyrna John M. McMahon, "Theonof Alexandria" entry in...
shortly before Ptolemy's time, were written by Cleomedes, Geminus, and TheonofSmyrna. Books by Roman authors like Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius contain...
commentaries of his on the Timaeus of Plato are also quoted by Porphyry, which was also used by TheonofSmyrna in the surviving sections of his On Mathematics...
Theodosius of Bithynia, astronomer and mathematician TheonofSmyrna, mathematician and philosopher Bryson of Heraclea, mathematician Alexander Polyhistor, scholar...
This list of ancient Greek philosophers contains philosophers who studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with...
interest in Pythagorean views on the importance of numbers was sustained by mathematicians such as TheonofSmyrna, Anatolius and Iamblichus. These mathematicians...
commentary thereon by Pappus; TheonofSmyrna (2nd century) also mentions the work, under the title On Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. Hipparchus...
p. 75. L. Zhmud The origin of the history of science in classical antiquity, p.84, quoting Plutarch and TheonofSmyrna Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 386...
Nicomachus, and TheonofSmyrna) XVII. Trigonometry: Hipparchus, Menelaus, Ptolemy XVIII. Mensuration: Heron of Alexandria XIX. Pappus of Alexandria XX...
evidence of the syncretism of Mithras and Phanes. A list of the eight elements of creation appears in Zenobius and TheonofSmyrna; most of the elements...
an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical...
Platonists there were TheonofSmyrna, who wrote a mathematical introduction to Plato, and Gaius (2nd century) who was a teacher of Platonist philosophy...
the mathematician Theonof Alexandria in the 4th century. The use of the term "axiom" instead of "postulate" derives from the choice of Proclus to do so...
of Antinouplis Simplicius of Cilicia Sporus of Nicaea Thales Theaetetus Theano Theodorus of Cyrene Theodosius of Bithynia Theonof Alexandria Theon of...
{\displaystyle =n^{2}} This property, colloquially known as the theorem ofTheonofSmyrna, is visually demonstrated in the following sum, which represents T...
This terminology can be traced to ancient Greece and sources such as TheonofSmyrna. Completely unrelated to the above sense, a synthesizer is called paraphonic...
challenge of constructing a square with the area of a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with a compass and straightedge. The difficulty of the...
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