Eutocius of Ascalon [SEP] date of birth
Eutocius of Ascalon
Eutocius of Ascalon (; ; 480 – 540) was a Greek mathematician who wrote commentaries on several Archimedean treatises and on the Apollonian "Conics".
Life and work.
Little is known about the life of Eutocius. He was born in Ascalon, then in Palestina Prima. He wrote commentaries on Apollonius and on Archimedes. The surviving works of Eutocius are:
- A Commentary on the first four books of the Conics of Apollonius.
- Commentaries on:
- the "Sphere and
- Balanos Vasilopoulos
- Bion of Abdera
- Bryson of Heraclea
- Callippus
- Carpus of Antioch
- Chrysippus
- Cleomedes
- Conon of Samos
- Ctesibius
- Daedalus
- Democritus
- Dicaearchus
- Dinostratus
- Diocles
- Dionysodorus
- Diophantus
- Domninus of Larissa
- Eratosthenes
- Euclid
- Eudoxus of Cnidus
- Eutocius of Ascalon
- Geminus
- Giovanni Demisiani
- Heliodorus of Larissa
- Hero of Alexandria
- Hipparchus
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