Archytas
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For other uses, see Archytas (disambiguation).
Archytas (/ˈɑːrkɪtəs/; Greek: Ἀρχύτας; 435/410–360/350 BC[2]) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist,[3] 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.[4]
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Born | 435/410 BC |
Died | 360/350 BC |
Era | Classical Greek philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Pythagoreanism |
Notable ideas | Doubling the cube Infinite universe |
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As a Pythagorean, Archytas believed that arithmetic (logistic), rather than geometry, provided the basis for satisfactory proofs,[5] and developed the most famous argument for the infinity of the universe in antiquity.[6]