Greek Philosophers, Mathematicians and Scientists

Thales of Miletus (ca. 640-ca. 546 B.C.)
  demonstrative mathematics

Pythagoras of Samos (ca. 572-ca. 495 B.C.)

Zeno of Elea (ca. 490-ca. 430 B.C.)
  Zeno's paradoxes

Hippasus
 irrational number

Hippocrates of Chios (ca. 470-ca. 410 B.C.)
 quadrature of the lune

Socrates (ca. 469-399 B.C.)

Plato (427-347 B.C.)
 Five regular polygon

Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 408-355 B.C.)
 theory of proportion
 method of exhaustion

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Euclid of Alexandria (ca. 300 B.C.)
 the Elements

Achimedes of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.)
 Archimedean screw
 lever and pulley
 On Floating Bodies
 Measurement of Circle
 On the Sphere and the Cylinder


Eratosthenes of Cyrene (ca. 276-ca. 195 B.C.)
 The Sieve of finding prime numbers
 On the Measurement of the Eearth

Eratosthenes sieve. Animation by Sebastian Koppehel

Syene is close to the tropic of cancer

Apollonius of Cyrene (ca. 262-ca. 190 B.C.)
 Conics