Archytas
Archytas (/ˈɑːrkɪtəs/; Greek: Ἀρχύτας; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato.
Archytas | |
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Bust from Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, once identified as Archytas, now thought to be Pythagoras | |
| Born | 435/410 BC |
| Died | 360/350 BC |
| Era | Classical Greek philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Pythagoreanism |
Notable ideas | Doubling the cube Infinite universe |
As a Pythagorean, Archytas believed that arithmetic (logistic), rather than geometry, provided the basis for satisfactory proofs, and developed the most famous argument for the infinity of the universe in antiquity.
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