Category:Named Theorems/Hippocrates

This category contains results named for Hippocrates of Chios.

Mathematician, geometer and astronomer.

The first to write a systematic textbook on geometry, Elements of Geometry, only a fragment of which survives.

Invented the technique of reduction, that is, transforming a mathematical problem into a more general, easily solvable one.

Demonstrated that the problem of Doubling the Cube is equivalent to finding the Cube Root of 2.

The first geometer to work out the area of a curvilinear figure (that is, the Lune of Hippocrates).

May have been a pupil of Oenopides of Chios.